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MATHEMATICS IN THE
MODERN WORLD
(MATHMOW)
Lesson 1:
THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS

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Topic 1: Nature of Mathematics
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Getting to know Mathematics:

?
❑ What is it?
❑ Where is it?
❑ What is it for? ? ?
Mathematics
❑ How it is done? is…
❑ Who uses Mathematics?
? ?
❑ Why is it important to learn
or know?
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Set of Problem
Solving tools

An Art Language

Process
Study of
of
Patterns
thinking
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⮚ Numbers, symbols,
Notations
What is Math about? ⮚ Operations, Equations,
functions

❖ It is
Where is Mathematics?
everywhere…….
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✔ To help us unravel the

puzzle of nature, a useful
way to think about nature.

✔ Organize patterns and

⮚What is it for? regularities as well as
irregularities.

✔ To help us control the

effect of weather and
epidemics

✔ Provides new questions

to think about.
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▪ With Curiosity
▪ With eagerness for
seeking patterns and
How is Mathematics Done? generalizations

▪ With desire to know

the truth

▪ With trial and error

▪ Without fear of
facing more questions
and problems
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• Mathematicians:
pure and applied

Who uses Mathematics? • Scientist :

natural and social
• Practically EVERYONE

✔ It puts order in disorder

Why it is important to know? ✔ It helps us to become
better persons.

✔ It helps us make the

world a better place to
live on
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❑ Are regular, repeated or
recurring forms or designs.
❑ It is an arrangement which
helps observers anticipate
what might see or what
happen next.
❑ Forming a consistent or
characteristic arrangement
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1. LOGIC PATTERN
- categorizing objects
based on
characteristics like
shape, color, texture,
etc… 
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Examples:
2. NUMBER PATTERN
Given: 3, 6, 9, 12. Find the
- Number sequences and series 9th term

- relationships among different Find the values of the last

numerical values/quantities. two numbers in the
sequence 448, 224, 112,
• Arithmetic Sequence 56, 28, __, ___.

• Harmonic Sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36,

• Geometric Sequence 45, … Find the 12th term 

• Fibonacci Sequence
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3. WORD PATTERN
Examples:
Knife : Knives
Life : lives
Wife : _______
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4. GEOMETRIC PATTERN
 PATTERNS ARE ALSO EXHIBITED IN THE
EXTERNAL APPEARANCES OF ANIMALS.
TIGER’S STRIPES HYENAS’ SPOTS
TOPIC 3: FIBONACCI AND GOLDEN RATIO
Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence
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CAN WE FIND
PATTERN?

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, …

8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …

WHAT COMES NEXT?

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LEONARDO PISANO
(LEONARDO OF PISA)
• Fibonacci (1170-1250) is a
short term for the Latin word
“Filius Bonacci”, which means
“The Son of Bonacci”.
• He introduced the Arabic
number system in Europe
• “Liber Abaci” - book
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Fibonacci number: the
order goes as follows:
0,1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …
Each number is the sum of the
previous two.
This series of numbers is known as
the Fibonacci numbers or the
Fibonacci sequence.
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Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence

 

THE EXPLICIT
FORMULA
- Also known as Binet's formula
- Jacques Philippe Marie Binet,
though it was already known by
Abraham de Moivre.
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Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence

 

THE EXPLICIT
FORMULA
- Also known as Binet's formula
- Jacques Philippe Marie   Binet,
though it was already known by
Abraham de Moivre.
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THE EXPLICIT
FORMULA
- Also known as Binet's formula
- Jacques Philippe Marie Binet,
 
though it was already known by
Abraham de Moivre.
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Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence

IN NATURE:
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Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence

IN NATURE:
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Topic 3: Fibonacci Sequence

On many plants, the number of

petals is a Fibonacci number:
buttercups have 5 petals; lilies
and iris have 3 petals; corn
marigolds have 13 petals;
some asters have 21 whereas
daisies can be found with 34,
55 or even 89 petals.
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Topic 3: THE GOLDEN RATIO

THE GOLDEN RATIO

• Also known as the Divine
Proportion
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THE GOLDEN RATIO

• It is the ratio of two consecutive
Fibonacci numbers
• The quotient of these two
consecutive numbers are
approaches to the value of
1.61803398… as n becomes
larger.
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Golden Rectangle; [ 1: 1.618 ]
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Golden Spiral
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Golden Ratio in Nature
IS MATHEMATICS
INVENTED
OR
DISCOVERED?
 SUMMARY

NATURE OF MATHEMATICS

✔ Mathematics in our World

✔ Discuss and argue about the

nature of mathematics, what it is,
how it is expressed, represented
and used.

✔ Patterns

✔ Fibonacci Sequence
 References

http://
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Math in the Modern World

Ethel Cecille Baltazar
Justina Evangelista

Math in the Modern World

Enrico M. Yambao
Mary C. Martin
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