MATH

IN THE

MODERN

WORLD
THE NATURE OF
MATHEMATICS
SECTION 1
 Chapter 1.
MATHEMATICS IN OUR
WORLD - 1
 Mathematics is not all
about numbers. It is more
about reasoning, making
inferences and generalization,
and seeing relationship in both
the visible and invisible
patterns in the natural world
 Learning Objectives:
At the end of this section, you are expected
to:
✔ Identify patterns in nature
✔ Articulate the importance of mathematics in
one’s life
✔ Argue about the nature of mathematics,
what is it, how it is expressed, represented,
and used.
✔ Express appreciation for mathematics as a
human endeavor
 Questions
⮚What is mathematics?
⮚Where is mathematics?
⮚What is mathematics for?
⮚What is mathematics all
about? (What do you study in
math?)
⮚What role does mathematics
play in our world?
What is Mathematics?
Human mind and culture –
develop a formal system of
thoughts for recognizing, classifying,
and exploiting patterns.
PATTERNS
 Where is mathematics?
▪ In nature
✔Numerical patterns – Fibonacci
sequence - flowers
✔Geometric patterns - snowflakes
✔Wave patterns - sand dunes, stripes,
spots
✔Patterns of movement – flight of
birds, motion of heavenly bodies
✔Chaos and Fractals– clouds, rivers
networks, mountains, trees, lightning
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Patterns in Nature
Where is mathematics?
In man- made structures
What role does mathematics play
in our world?
▪ Mathematics is a useful and systematic
way to think about and understand
nature.
Examples
✔Storm is a functions of temperature and
pressure
✔Plant growth is a function of nutrients and
sunlight
✔Success is a function of good character,
positive mind set and discipline
⮚What is mathematics all
about?
▪ Patterns
✔ Numbers
✔ Operations and Functions
✔ Processes
✔ Data structure
✔ Proof – presents a story about mathematics
that works.
 What is mathematics for?
▪ Helps organize the underlying
patterns and regularities
▪ Helps predict behavior of nature
and phenomena
▪ Helps control nature and
occurrences for our own ends
▪ Make practical use of what we
have learned about our world
Some Ideas to Discourage or
Debunk or Disprove
🠶 Mathematics is just for the
books, confined in the
classroom.
🠶 Mathematics has no place in
my life.
 Questions
1. What new ideas about
mathematics did you learn?
2. What is it about
mathematics that might
have changed your
thoughts about it?
3. What is most useful about
mathematics?
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