MATHEMATICS as a

STUDY OF
PATTERNS
PREPARED BY: SALMAN V. DELFIN
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• An arrangement which helps observers anticipate
what they might see or what happens next.
• Organizes information
• Discovers connection or relationship between
unrelated bits of information
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• Pattern-seeking behavior of humans from childhood to
adulthood
• A toddler separates blue blocks from red blocks
• A first grader does skip counting
• A sixth grader creates patterns that cover a plane
• A high school student learns pattern in function, how one number
is related to another
• A college biology student studies sequence of DNA and proteins
• A doctor decides who is healthy by recognizing health patterns
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•Various Patterns:
•LOGIC PATTERNS
•NUMBER PATTERNS
•GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
•WORD PATTERNS
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•LOGIC PATTERNS
•Usually first to be observed.
Classifying things, for example,
comes before numeration. These
patterns are seen in aptitude test.
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•LOGIC PATTERNS
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• LOGIC PATTERNS
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•NUMBER PATTERNS
•Patterns of numbers. Formal
description of relationships
among different quantities.
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•GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
•motif or design that depict
abstract shapes like lines,
polygons, circles, and typically
repeat like a wallpaper.
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•GEOMETRIC PATTERNS

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•WORD PATTERNS
•Patterns that can also be found in
languages like the morphological rules
on pluralizing nouns or conjugating
verbs for tense, as well as the metrical
rules of poetry.
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•WORD PATTERNS
•knife: knives life: lives wife: ?
•She: dances We: dance It: ?
•He: is They: are We: ?
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•LESSON 1 TASK: Make (3) three
examples of the following patterns:
•Logic Pattern
•Geometric Pattern
•Word Pattern
•Number Pattern