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Mathematics in Our World Students
MATHEMATIC
S
MATHEMATICS
IN OUR WORLD
Patterns
Sequence & Series
PATTERN
PATTERN
PATTERN
Pattern is defined as regular,
repeated, recurring forms/ designs.
PATTERN
a platform placed inside their cage, as an
observation, these mice stopped going
above the platform.
a. c.
b. d.
?
Answer: b
a. c.
b. d.
Answer: b
If we assign numbers to the tiles, the upper odd tiles always
contains 6 dots while the upper even tiles is decreasing.
The lower odd tiles are increasing while the lower even tiles
always contains 4 dots.
a. b. c. d. e.
The next frame after each step portrays a mirror image of the
previous frame. In addition, every two steps a shape is added to the
Answer: c frame. Answer choice ‘c’ is a mirrored version of frame 5 and is
therefore the correct answer.
a. b. c. d. e.
The sketch is built stage by stage and in each step an additional line
is added. This guideline eliminates answer choices a, b and d.
Answer: c Notice also that the new line never touches the last line added,
which eliminates answer choice e.
a. b. c. d. e.
1) Each step, 45 degrees of the black circle is painted in
white, counter clockwise.
Answer: d 2) Each step, a line drawn from the centre of the circle to
the edge of the frame turns 45 degrees
clockwise.
Activity
GOLDEN Ratio
First called as the Divine Proportion in the early 1500s in Leonardo da Vinci’s work which was
explored by Luca Pacioli (Italian Mathematician) entitled “De Devina Proportione” in 1509.
In Mathematics, two quantities are in the Golden Ratio if their ratio is the same of their sum to the larger
of the two quantities.
Golden Rectangle/Golden Spiral
𝑎+ 𝑏
{1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89}
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… what is physical is subject to the laws of
mathematics, and what is spiritual to the laws of
God, and the laws of mathematics are but the
expression of the thoughts of God.
- Thomas Hill