IMIE L.

FLORES
• RESEARCH
MATHEMATICS IN THE
MODERN WORLD
TOPIC:
PATTERNS AND NUMBERS IN
NATURE AND THE WORLD
LEARNING OUTCOME:
• IDENTIFY PATTERNS IN NATURE AND
REGULARITIES IN THE WORLD
• ARGUE ABOUT NATURE OF MATHEMATICS, WHAT IT
IS, HOW IT IS EXPRESSED, REPRESENTED AND USED
• EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR MATHEMATICS AS A
HUMAN ENDEAVOR
WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?
• “WE HAVE DEVELOPED A FORMAL SYSTEM OF
THOUGHT FOR REORGANIZING, CLASSIFYING, AND
EXPLORING PATTERNS CALLED MATHEMATICS” –
(STEWART, EDWARD)
• IS THE ART OF PATTERNS AND CONNECTIONS
EMBEDDED IN NATURE AND IN OUR ENVIRONMENT.
WE CAN USE THE FOLLOWING CONCEPT
MAP IN DEFINING MATHEMATICS.
STUDY OF
PATTERNS

ART LANGUAGE
MATHEMATICS
IS A/ AN...

SET OF
PROBLEM PROCESS OF
SOLVING THINKING
TOOLS
REAL NUMBERS
THE SET OF NUMBERS IS CALLED THE REAL
NUMBERS SYSTEM THAT CONSISTS OF
DIFFERENT SUBSETS THAT CAN BE REPRESENTED
GRAPHICALLY ON A NUMBER LINE.
SUBSETS OF REAL NUMBERS
• NATURAL/ COUNTING NUMBERS – ARE THE NUMBERS WE
USE IN COUNTING THINGS, THAT IS ( 1, 2, 3, 4, ….)

• WHOLE NUMBERS – ARE NUMBERS CONSISTING OF THE SET

OF NATURAL OR COUNTING NUMBERS AND ZERO.

• INTEGERS – ARE THE RESULT OF THE UNION OF THE SET OF

WHOLE NUMBERS AND THE NEGATIVE OF COUNTING NUMBERS,
THAT IS (….-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, …)
••  RATIONAL NUMBERS – ARE NUMBERS THAT CAN BE
EXPRESSED AS A QUOTIENT OF TWO INTEGERS.
THE INTEGER A IS THE NUMERATOR, WHILE
INTEGER B WHICH CANNOT BE ZERO IS THE
DENOMINATOR. THE SET INCLUDES SOME DECIMAL
NUMBERS (REPEATING AND TERMINATING).
••  IRRATIONAL NUMBERS – ARE NUMBERS THAT
CANNOT BE EXPRESSED AS A QUOTIENT OF TWO
INTEGERS. EVERY IRRATIONAL NUMBER CANNOT BE
REPRESENTED IN DECIMAL THAT IS REPEATING NOR
TERMINATES.