DIVINE WORD COLLEGE OF LEGAZPI

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES

Legazpi City

SYLLABUS IN MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

School Year 2020 - 2021

COLLEGE: School of Education Program:

Course Code: GE 04 Credit Unit: 3

Class days and class time: Prerequisite: None

Instructor: Richel L. Lozano

Course Description: This course deals with the nature of mathematics, the appreciation of its practical, intellectual, and aesthetic dimensions, and applications
of the mathematical tools in daily life. The course begins with an introduction to the nature of mathematics as an exploration of patterns ( in
nature and the environment) and as an application of inductive and deductive reasoning. The course then proceeds to survey ways in which
the mathematics provides a tool for understanding and dealing with the various aspects of present-day living, such as managing personal
finances, making social choices, appreciating geometric designs, understanding codes used in data transmission and security, and dividing
limited resources fairly. These aspects will provide opportunities for actually doing mathematics in a broad range of exercises that bring out the
various dimensions of mathematics as a way of knowing and test the student’s understanding and capacity.
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILO)

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

EDGA/Required Domains of Competency Program Outcome

Innovation & Creativity Skills
Competent  Produce original and valuable ideas
 Carefully examine ideas and decide on their viability
Equipped with necessary skills, knowledge  Consider and evaluate the perspective of others and determine if their perspective are beneficial
and experience. and can be adopted
 Concretize ideas through creating new and useful innovations
Problem-solving/Computation/Mathematical Skills
 Exercise sound reasoning in gathering information related to a particular problem
 Assess every problem based on its magnitude and scope, its urgency/immediacy,
interconnections among systems and its impact to the environment
 Frame, analyze, and synthesize information in resolving problems by answering problem-related
questions
 Use computations/mathematical skills in coming up with possible options/ solutions
 Make sound decisions after analysis of generated information
 Implement and evaluate the implementation of decisions
Critical Thinking Skills
 Organize information logically
 Judge the validity and relevance of ideas and arguments
 Employ scientific reasoning in evaluating ideas and evidences, in answering questions, and in
explaining assumptions
Technical Skills
 Utilize knowledge and skills necessary to executing tasks relevant to one’s field of
expertise/specialization
 Solve practical problems through the application of relevant theories
 Show clear and understandable communication in the discipline
Passionate Towards Work
Readiness and willingness to work beyond
expectations.
Effective Leader
Having the ability to inspire others to work
together for the common good.
Good Interpersonal Skills
The ability to and interact effectively with other
people, individually or in groups.
Commitment
 Show full engagement in one’s work—putting one’s heart, spirit, mind, and hands to one’s tasks
 Manifest willingness and ability to work beyond required hours to accomplish targets
● Demonstrate readiness to make personal sacrifices, if needed, for the organization’s wellbeing
Leadership/Management Skills
 Use interpersonal and problem solving skills to influence and guide others towards a goal
 Leverage strengths of others to accomplish a common goal
 Act responsibly with the interests of the larger community in mind
 Use good organizational skills
 Communicate tasks and expected results effectively
 Use good delegation skills Work with clarity of purpose and task
Communication Skills
 Listen actively to instructions and act on those instructions appropriately with minimal guidance
 Speak, write, and listen effectively and confidently
 Organize thoughts logically and explain everything clearly
People Skills/Teamwork Skills
 Relate well with others, both co-workers and clientele
 Work well with others in pursuit of common goals
 Work with minor supervision
● Contribute ideas and suggestions for the proper accomplishment of goals
LEARNING PLAN:

INTENDED LEARNING TOPIC/S TEACHING/LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENT TIME FRAME

OUTCOME (ILO) ACTIVITIES MATERIALS
At the end of this The Nature of Activities 1. Short-response/essay
course, the students Mathematics 1. Short video laptop writing at the end of
should be able to: watching/power projector the class about the
I. Mathematics is point book nature of mathematics.
1. Identify patterns a useful way to 2. Reading some 2. Two-to-three-page
in nature and think about chapters synthesis paper
regularities in the nature and our 3. Small group focusing on one of the
world. (k) world. sharing following aspects of
2. State the ● Patterns & Numbers in 4. Whole class mathematics:
importance of Nature discussion a. Mathematics
mathematics in Questions to Pose: provides tool for
one’s life. (K) ● The Fibonacci 1. What is calculations.
3. Explain the Sequence Mathematics? b. Mathematics
nature of 2. Where is provides new
mathematics, ● Mathematics helps Mathematics? questions to think
what it is, how it organize patterns and 3. What role does about.
is expressed, regularities in the world. mathematics play in c. Mathematics helps
represented, and your world? organize patterns
used (K) ● Mathematics helps 4. What is and regularities in
4. Express predict the behavior of mathematics for? the world.
appreciation for nature and phenomena in Some ideas to elicit and d. Mathematics helps
mathematics as a the world encourage: predict the
human endeavor 1. Many patterns and behavior of nature
(V) ● Mathematics helps occurences exist in and occurences in
control nature and nature, in our world, the world for our
occurrences in the world and in our life. own ends.
for our own ends. Mathematics helps Basis for Grading to Use:
make sense of 0 point – The student cannot
● Mathematics has these patterns and elicit the ideas and concepts
 numerous applications in occurences. from the readings and video
the world making it 2. Mathematics is a indicating that’s/he has not
indispensable. tool to quantify, read the prescribed readings
organize, and or watched the video.
control our 1 point- The student can elicit
world,predict the ideas & concepts from
phenomena, and the readings & video but
make life easier for shows erroneous
us. understanding of these.
2 points- The student can
elicit ideas & concepts from
the readings & video & shows
Some ideas to correct understanding of
discourage or debunk or these.
disprove: 3 points- The student not
1. Mathematics is just only elicits the correct ideas
for the books, but shows evidence of
confined in the internalizing these.
classroom.
2. Mathematics has no
place in my life.
1. Writing exercises
5. Discuss the ● Mathematical language 1. Short video Laptop 2. Short quiz
language, and symbols watching Projector
symbols, and 2. Peer or small group Activity sheets
conventions of ● Characteristics of exercises/writing
mathematics (K) mathematical language: exercises.
6. Explain the precise, concise, powerful 3. Discussion on the
nature of comparisons
mathematics as a ● Expressions vs. between the English
language (K) sentences & Mathematical
7. Perform Language.
operations on ● Four basic concepts: 4. Compilation of
 mathematical sets, functions, relations,
Expressions binary operations
correctly (S)
8. Explain that ● Elementary logic:
mathematics is a connectives, quantifiers,
useful language negation, variables
(V)
● Formality of
mathematics as a
language in order that
they may be able to read
and write mathematics
texts and communicate
ideas with precision and
conciseness.
● Problem Solving and
9. Apply the Reasoning
different types of
reasoning to - Inductive and Deductive
justify statements Reasoning
and arguments
made about
mathematics and
mathematical
concepts (K)
mathematical
symbols and
notations and their
meanings.
Some ideas to elicit &
encourage:
1. Mathematics is a
language itself.
Hence, it is useful in
communicating
important ideas.
2. Mathematics as a
language is clear
and objective.
3. Language
conventions are
necessary in
mathematics for it to
be understood by
all.
1. Take home problem
1. Reading & writing set
proofs. 2. Exam
2. Small group Basis for grading:
problem 0 point- did not
solving/reasoning attempt to solve any
problems
1 point- attempted to
3. Presentation of solve 25% of the
solutions problems
2 points- student
 4. Class discussions of attempted to solve
the key problems & 50%
solutions 3 points- student
attempted to solve
75%
4 points- the student
completely solve all
the problems

1. There may be more

than one approach
in solving
mathematical
problems.

10. Write clear and - Intuition, proof and

logical proofs (K) certainty Some ideas to elicit &
encourage:
●Mathematics
 requires not only
facility with
numbers but
also the ability to
critically think
through
situations, to
reason and
argue logically,
& to creatively
solve problems.

11. Solve ● Polya’s 4-steps in ●Mathematics is an

problems Problem Solving active human
involving patterns endeavor. We can
and recreational ● Problem Solving create the
problems Strategies mathematics we
following Polya’s need to solve
4 steps(S) problems.

12.Organize ● Mathematical Problems ●Mathematical

one’s method involving Patterns problem solving
and approaches takes time.
for proving and ● Recreational Problems Solutions are not
solving problems using mathematics always apparent to
(V) the solver.

13.Use variety of Mathematics as a Tool 1. lectures Marker & eraser 1. Group project
statistical tools to Data Management 2. individual/ small group Activity sheet proposal for a
process and ● Statistical tools derived exercises Laptop quantitative study
manage numerical from mathematics are 3. class discussions projector to be submitted
 data (S) useful in processing and Example of applications: 2. Short quiz
managing numerical data The average height of a
in order to describe a certain age group of people Sample Project
phenomenon and predict is 53 inches. The standard Proposal:
values. deviation is 4 inches. If the You want the school to
variable is normally encourage all the faculty
distributed, find the to submit grades online
probability that a selected to facilitate the fastest
individual’s height will be encoding/posting of
a. Greater than 59 grades needed for the
inches enrollment. The MIS
b. Between 50 to 55 director asks your team
inches to present hard data that
c. Less than 45 inches will convince the faculty.
Prepare a proposal on
how you will do this task.

1. Use the methods ● Data: gathering and 1. Lectures Laptop Standards/Basis for
of statistical data organizing data; 2. Individual/small Projector Grading to Use:
in making representing charts and group activities Activity sheet 1. Numerical scores
important graphs and interpreting 3. Class discussions for the quiz
decisions (V) data. 2. Rubric for the
project proposal
2. Compute using ● Measures of central
different Statistical Tendency: mean, median,
Tools mode and weighted
mean.

● Measures of dispersion:
range, standard deviation
and variance

● Measures of relative
 positions: z-scores,
percentiles, quartiles, and
box-and-whiskers plots

● Probabilities and normal

distributions

● Linear regression and

correlation: least-squares
line, linear correlation
coefficient

3. Use mathematical ● Linear Programming lectures laptop Evaluation

concepts and role Playing projector requirements
tools in other - Linear Inequalities written exercises activity sheet - Problem set
areas such as in - An integrating
finance, voting, - Geometry and Linear project
logic business, Programming Sample Integrating
networks and Project (by groups)
systems (S) - Simplex Method - Create a poster aimed
at recruiting students to
join a club that promotes
mathematics as an
important tool in
everyday life.
-
4. Justify the use of ● The Mathematics of Standards/Basis for
mathematics in Finance Grading to Use
various aspects - Numerical scores
and endeavors in - Simple and for problem sets
life (V) Compound Interest - Rubrics for the
- Credit Cards and project
 consumer Loans
- Stocks, Bonds and
Mutual Funds
-
5. Use coding Codes 1. Lectures Laptop 1. Individual/ by pair
schemes to The utility of mathematics 2. Discussions Projector written exercises
encode and goes beyond the 3. Writing exercises Activity sheet
decode different mundane. Mathematics
types of enables the development
information for of codes and ciphers that
identification, are useful to individuals
privacy, and and to society.
security purposes. ● Binary codes
(S) ● Integers in computers
6. Dramatized ● Logic and computer
honesty and addition
integrity when ● Text data
using codes for ● Errors and error
security purposes. correction
(S) ● error detecting codes
● Repetition and
Hamming codes
References:

Required only for teachers:

Jamison, R. E. (2000). Learning the language of mathematics. Language and Learning across the Disciplines, 4(1), 45-54

Student’s References:
Aufman, R. et al. Mathematics in the Modern World
Adam, John A. Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the World
Adam, John A. A Mathematical Nature Walk
Aufmann, R. et al. Mathematical Excursions ( Chaps. 1,3,4,5,8,11 and 13) 33r Ed (International Edition).
COMAP Inc. For All Practical Purposes, introduction to Contemporary Mathematics ( 2nd ed.)
Fisher, Carol Burns. The Language and Grammar of Mathematics
Hersh, R. What is Mathematics Really? (Chaps. 4 & 5)
Johnson and Mowry, Mathematics, A Practical Oddyssey (Chap.12)
Moser and Chen. A Sudent’s Guide to Coding and Information Theory
Stewart, Ian. Nature’s Numbers
Vistro-Yu, C. Geometry: Shapes, Patterns and Designs (A chapter for the new ed. Of the math 12 textbook for Ateneo de Manila University).

VIDEO
● https://vimeo.com/9953368

Recommended Readings:
Akiyama and Ruiz. A Day’s Adventure in Math wonderland
Aufmann et al. Mathemtical Excursions (Chap. 2)
Averbach and Chein. Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics
Enzensberger. The Number Devil
Course Requirements:

a) Attendance (Please refer to the College Student Handbook, 2014 Revised edition pp. 20-23).
b) Advanced readings of the topics.
c) Active participation in all class activities.
d) Submission of requirements on time.
e) Pass major exams (Term Exams)

Grading System: (Please refer to the College Student Handbook, 2014, Revised Edition, pp. 14-20).

Prepared by: Recommending Approval:

_______________ ______________________
Richel L. Lozano Dr. Mary Jane R. Reduta
Instructor Program Head

Approved:

_____________________________
SALVACION L. GARCERA, Ph. D.
Dean