POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

LOPEZ, QUEZON BRANCH

=====================================================================================
GEED 10053 Mathematics in the Modern World October 7, 2020

Assignment / Quiz # 1

Student Name: ___________________________ Course / Year: __________________

A. Identification. Write the correct word on the blank in the right that is being referred to in the
following:

1. A series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a
river, stream, or other watercourse.
______________________________
2. A disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space, with little or no associated
mass transport.
______________________________
3. A substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
______________________________
4. The tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes with no overlaps and gaps.
______________________________
5. A curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the
point.
______________________________
6. An arrangement in dimensions, due proportion, an arrangement.
______________________________
7. This occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces
within the solid
______________________________
8. Is characterized by the fact that every number after the first two is the sum of the two
preceding ones
______________________________
9. A series of bands, often of the same width and color along the length.
______________________________
10. The infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales.
______________________________

1|Page
 POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
LOPEZ, QUEZON BRANCH

=====================================================================================
B. Performance Task

1. Go to the garden or park, and start counting leaves and petals. Write the result on this
form:

Plant Name or Description: ___________________

a. Do the leaves grow in spirals? (Yes/No) ___________________

b. What is the pattern of the leaves? ___________________.

c. Are there flowers? (Yes/No) ___________________

d. What is the arrangement of the petals? ___________________

2. Look at the outer skin of a pineapple. How many designs are in the outer skin of
pineapple? Is there a pattern? (Yes/No). Justify your answer.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

C. From the ten (10) reasons why mathematics is important, state five (5) additional reasons with
clear description of application. State disadvantage if a person does not know and understand
mathematics.

Reasons Setbacks

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

2|Page
 POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
LOPEZ, QUEZON BRANCH

=====================================================================================
D. Write an essay focusing on the following questions. What new ideas about mathematics did you
learn? What it is about mathematics that might have changed your thoughts about it? What is
most useful about mathematics for human kind? Do you think the subject mathematics in which
you are enrolled is important? (Yes/No) Why? Cite five (5) situations

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

Prepared By:

Engr. Antonio P. Curva

Part-Time Faculty

3|Page