Name:Kaye Paule Mathematics in the Modern World

Year/Course/Section:1 BSBA B

WRITE ATLEAST 10 THINGS IN NATURE THAT YOU OBSERVE CONTAINS MATH, EXPLAIN WHY THERE IS MATH
IN THEM

I thought that Math is about numbers, books, computer, etc. But I discovered that there’s also Math in
Nature, it says that math’s presence is everywhere, it sounds irrelevant right? So these are the the 10 things
that will prove that there is math in nature,
1.Snowflakes – this is one of the most popular examples, which shows symmetry in nature in particular, they
indicate 6 fold radical symmetry whose arms have identical, elaborate patterns. Interestingly snowflake is
completely symmetrical inside itself.
2.Sunflower – these beautiful flowers shows radical symmetry, as well as a kind of numerical symmetry called,
“The Fibonacci Sequence”. The amount of seed spirals of the sunflower adds up to a Fibonacci Number.
3.Nautilus Shell – A Nautilus shell is a cephalopod mollusk that has a spiral shell along with many shot
tentacles around its mouth. Nautilus also show Fibonacci numbers. The shell of a Nautilus is grown in a
Fibonacci spiral, which tries to maintain the shell’s proportional shape as it is grows.
4.Pinecones - the seed pads of pinecones arrange in a spiral patterns. They have 2 spirals, each of which twists
upward in opposing directions. Most of the time, the step number will match a pair of consecutive fibonacci
numbers.
5.Honeycomb - Mankind has been long amazed by the honeycombs’ hexagonal figures. Honeycombs indicates
wallpaper symmetry. In which a pattern is repeated until it fully covers a plane. It is believed by
mathematicians that bees choose this structure as this the most efficient to store the most honey possible
with the smallest amount of wax.
6.Tree Branches - A trees main trunk grows ‘til it produce a branch, and creating 2 growth points. Then one of
the new stem branches into 2, And the others remain dormant. This process repeats with each of the new
stems. These patterns are called “fractals”.
7.Orb web spiders – orb web spiders are divided into about 5000 types. They make almost perfect circular
webs with near-equal distanced radical supports that come out of the middle as well as a spiral they weave to
catch preys.
8.Butterfly - butterfly is an example of bilateral symmetry we see how one side of the its body is a very close
copy of the other side, as if it were able to split the image into two sides – or two it almost perfectly reflected
images. Not infrequently, this morphology has a clear function: for example, it would be very difficult for a
butterfly to fly straight if its wings weren’t the same size.
9.Orange - An orange is spherically symmetrical because it can be cut into two equal halves – regardless of the
direction of the cut, as long as it passes through its center. Fruits like oranges and some lemons have a shape
that is very close to being spherical.
10.Comb Jelly - comb jellies. Resembling jellyfish, these marine animals have symmetrical opposite sides, but
each side is different from its adjacent one.