P R E L I M I N A R Y 

   P E R I O D

I.  Major Topic: The Nature of Mathematics

   
A. Lesson 1: Patterns and Numbers in Nature and the World
    
1. Overview of the Lesson
1. Different Patterns and Numbers in the Natural World
2. The Fibonacci Sequence

2. Learning Outcomes :
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
a. Identify the patterns in nature and regularities in the world.
b. Describe and apply Fibonacci sequence
c. Argue about the nature of mathematics, what is, how it is expressed,
represented and used
     
3. Presentation and Development of the Lesson
Note: a powerpoint presentation will be used in discussing the above topic via Google
classroom. Activities and exercises will be given and be submitted via edmodo.com

One of the things about Mathematics that we love the most is it’s uncanny ability
to reveal hidden beautiful patterns in our everyday life, the nature around us. These
patterns can be sequential, spatial, temporal, and even linguistic. There are connections
between things that don’t seem connected, but can be observed with the intellect of
math. 

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it:

 the 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1),

 the 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),
 the 5 is (2+3), and so on! Each number is the sum of the previous two. This series of
numbers is known as the Fibonacci numbers or the Fibonacci sequence.
 The ratio between the numbers (1.618034) is frequently called the golden
ratio or golden number.
 Fibonacci numbers appear in nature often enough to prove that they reflect some
naturally occurring patterns. You can commonly spot these by studying the manner in
which various plants grow.

Here are a few examples: the snowflakes and honeycomb; tiger’s stripes and
hyenas spots; the sunflower; the snail shell, flower petals

4. Generalization of the Lesson

The patterns and numbers in nature proves one thing - we can say mathematics is
the science of patterns.

Recognizing number patterns is an important problem-solving skill. If you

recognize a pattern when looking systematically at specific examples, that pattern can
then be used to make things easier when needing a solution to a problem