Learning Outcome
• To identify patterns in nature and regularities in the world.
• To articulate importance of mathematics in one’s life.
• To argue about the nature of mathematics, what it is, how it is
expressed, represented, and used.
• Express appreciation of mathematics as a human endeavor.
Unit LESSONS: The Nature of Mathematics
•Mathematics of Our World
•Mathematics in Our World
•Mathematics of Sequence
MATHEMATICS
1. Mathematics is a tool
2. Mathematics is everywhere
3. Mathematical Landscape
4. The Essential Roles of Mathematics
5. How Mathematics is Done
6. Mathematics is for everyone
Mathematics of Our World
Mathematics is a Tool
• Mathematics, as a tool, is immensely useful, practical, and
powerful. It is not about crunching numbers, formulas, and
symbols but rather, it is all about forming new ways to see
problems so we can understand them by combining insights
with imagination.
Mathematics of Our World
Mathematics is a Tool
Mathematics of Our World
Mathematics is Everywhere
We use mathematics in their daily tasks and activities. It is our
important tool in the field of sciences, humanities, literature,
medicine, and even in music and arts.
It is in the rhythm of our daily activities, operational in our
communities, and a default system of our culture.
Mathematics of Our World
The Mathematical Landscape
The human mind and culture developed a conceptual
landscape for mathematical thoughts and ideas to flourish
and propagate.
There is a region in the human mind that is capable of
constructing and discerning the deepest insights being
perceived from the natural world.
Mathematics of Our World
The Essential Roles of Mathematics
• Mathematics has countless hidden uses and applications.
It is not only something that delights our mind but it also
allows us to learn and understand the natural order of the
world.
• use applied mathematics in doing or performing researches to solve
social, scientific, medical, or even political crises.
• provides tools for calculations
• provides new questions to think about
Mathematics of Our World
How Mathematics is Done
• Math is a way of thinking, and it is undeniably important
to see how that thinking is going to be developed rather
than just merely see face value of the results.
• For some people, few math theorems can bring up as
much remembered pain and anxiety.
Mathematics of Our World
Mathematics is for Everyone
• The relationship of the mathematical landscape in the
human mind with the natural world is so strange that in
the long run, the good math provides utilization and
usefulness in the order of things.
Mathematics of Our World
The Importance of Knowing and
Learning Mathematics
• Why do we want to observe and describe patterns and regularities?
• Why do we want to understand the physical phenomena governing
our world?
• Why do we want to dig out rules and structures that lie behind
patterns of the natural order?
Mathematics of Our World
The Importance of Knowing and
Learning Mathematics
• It is because those rules and structures explain what is going on.
• It is because they are beneficial in generating conclusions and in
predicting events.
• It is because they provide clues.
Mathematics in Our World
PATTERNS
A pattern is a structure, form, or design that is regular, consistent,
or recurring. Patterns can be found in nature, in human-made
designs, or in abstract ideas. They occur in different contexts and
various forms.
In general sense, any regularity that can be explained
mathematically is a pattern.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
• Patterns of Visuals
• Patterns of Flow
• Patterns of Movement
• Patterns of Rhythm
• Patterns of texture
• Geometric Patterns
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Visuals
Visual patterns are often unpredictable, never quite repeatable, and often
contain fractals. These patterns are can be seen from the seeds and pinecones to
the branches and leaves. They are also visible in self-similar replication of trees,
ferns, and plants throughout nature.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Visuals
Visual patterns are often unpredictable, never quite repeatable, and often
contain fractals. These patterns are can be seen from the seeds and pinecones to
the branches and leaves. They are also visible in self-similar replication of trees,
ferns, and plants throughout nature.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Visuals
Visual patterns are often unpredictable, never quite repeatable, and often
contain fractals. These patterns are can be seen from the seeds and pinecones to
the branches and leaves. They are also visible in self-similar replication of trees,
ferns, and plants throughout nature.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Flow
The flow of liquids provides an inexhaustible supply of nature’s patterns. Patterns
of flow are usually found in the water, stone, and even in the growth of trees.
There is also a flow pattern present in meandering rivers with the repetition of
undulating lines.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Flow
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Movement
In the human walk, the feet strike the ground in a regular rhythm: the left-right-
left-right-left rhythm. When a horse, a four-legged creature walks, there is more of
a complex but equally rhythmic pattern. This prevalence of pattern in locomotion
extends to the scuttling of insects, the flights of birds, the pulsations of jellyfish,
and also the wave-like movements of fish, worms, and snakes.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Rhythm
Rhythm is conceivably the most basic pattern in nature. Our hearts and lungs follow a
regular repeated pattern of sounds or movement whose timing is adapted to our body’s
needs. Many of nature’s rhythms are most likely similar to a heartbeat, while others are
like breathing. The beating of the heart, as well as breathing, have a default pattern.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Patterns of Texture
A texture is a quality of a certain object that we sense through
touch. It exists as a literal surface that we can feel, see, and
imagine. Textures are of many kinds. It can be bristly, and
rough, but it can also be smooth, cold, and hard.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF PATTERNS
Geometric Patterns
A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern which consists of a series of shapes
that are typically repeated. These are regularities in the natural world that are
repeated in a predictable manner. Geometrical patterns are usually visible on
cacti and succulents.
Waves and Dune
In mathematics, if a figure can be folded or divided into two with two halves
which are the same, such figure is called a symmetric figure
Symmetry has a vital role in pattern formation. It is used to classify and
organize information about patterns by classifying the motion or deformation
of both pattern structures and processes.
Reflection symmetry, sometimes called line symmetry or mirror symmetry,
captures symmetries when the left half of a pattern is the same as the right half.
Rotations, also known as rotational symmetry, captures symmetries when it still
looks the same after some rotation (of less than one full turn). The degree of
rotational symmetry of an object is recognized by the number of distinct orientations
in which it looks the same for each rotation
Translations.
This is another type of symmetry. Translational symmetry exists in patterns that we
see in nature and in man-made objects. Translations acquire symmetries when units
are repeated and turn out having identical figures, like the
bees’ honeycomb with hexagonal tiles.
Activity 1:
Answer the following questions (minimum of 50 words per item)
1. What are the new things that you learned about the nature of
mathematics?
2. What aspect of the lesson significant changed your view about
mathematics?
3. What is the most important contribution of mathematics in
humankind?
Activity 2
Make your own Modulo art.
Artistry 15
Color Harmony 10
Neatness 5
Total Points 30 pts.
Examples
