COLEGIO DE SAN FRANCISCO JAVIER

Rizal, Zamboanga del Norte

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOCIAL WORK (BSSW)

MATHEM IN THE MODERN

WORLD

ALTHEA D. ONDAC
You can message me on my Gmail account/phone number
altheaondac40@gmail.com / 09618280996

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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALTHEA D. ONDAC, a licensed professional teacher and currently a faculty of Colegio De San Francisco Javier
of Rizal Incorporated in Junior High school Department in Rizal, Zamboanga del Norte. She is also a part-time College
instructor at the College of Social Work and Development Studies in this institution. She obtained her Bachelor of
Secondary Education major in Mathematics, year 2019 at Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Main Campus, Dapitan
City. She was a former President of Euclidean Circle, the official Mathematics Club in the said institution.

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 MODULAR ONLINE CLASSROOM POLICIES

The following are guidelines for online behavior and interaction “netiquette” for the conduct of classes
for the School Year 2020-2021:

I. GENERAL GUIDELINES
When enrolled under the online courses, the following policies must be observed:
1. Punctuality must be observed online classes especially when there is an online class
conducted.
2. Address your instructor to its proper title (i.e Dr. Juan Dela Cruz) or if you are in doubt you
may use Mr. or Ms.
3. Respect your instructor and classmate in email or any other communication.
4. All higher education communication must observe proper grammar and correct spelling
including forums and discussions.
5. Avoid slang terms such as “wassup?” and texting abbreviations such as “u” instead of “you”
6. Limit and possibly avoid the usage of emojis.
7. Use standard fonts such as Arial, Calibri, or Times new Roman and use proper font sizes 11 or
12\
8. Refrain from using the caps lock feature as it can be interpreted as yelling.
9. Be cautious when using humor or sarcasm as a tone is sometimes taken seriously or sound
offensive.
10. Be vigilant with personal information (both yours and other).
11. Intellectual Property Rights must be observed, thus usage of contents materials and media
without the proper citation of the owner is strictly prohibited.
II. SECURITY & PRIVACY
1. Do not disclose any confidential information such as passwords, class codes, or learning
materials to other.
2. Change your password regularly to avoid compromising of your account.
3. Remember to log out your account at the end of each online class session.
III. EMAIL NETIQUETTE
1. Use a descriptive subject line, it must convey the entire content of the email.
2. Be brief in composing your email.
3. Sign your email with your full name and a return email address.
4. Review your message prior to sending especially the email address.
IV. LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

When passing on the Discussion Board of the Google Classroom you should:
1. Use clear and concise language.
2. Compose post that are relevant to the topic and within the scope of the course material.
3. Review your post prior to publishing and edit if when deemed necessary.
4. Read the entire conversation or thread prior to commenting or replying.
5. Be brief and as possible while still making a throughout comment.
6. Avoid generic replies such as “ok”, “I agree” etc., there should be a supporting statement
right after.
7. In an events of disagreement with someone in the classroom, you should express your
differing opinion in a respectful manner.
8. Refrain from making personal or insulting remarks.
V. GUIDELINES FOR COURSE OUTPUTS
a. Documentary Documents
1. The size of the document must be 8.5” by 13”
2. The default orientation of the document is Portrait, is shall only be Landscape if specified in
the instructions)
3. The margins of the document must be set to default (1”- Top, 1” – Bottom, 1” – Right)
4. The font face must be Arial, FONT SIZE 12.
5. Spacing throughout the document must be set to 1.5
6. The document must bear the name of the owner and must follow the format.
(LASTNAME, FIRST NAME, MIDDLE INITIAL) to the left, and must bear the date to the right
bearing format (i.e. December 25, 2020)
7. In the events that the document is group output, it shall follow the guidelines in #7 but must
be sorted alphabetically.
8. The document must bear a page number at the bottom right (i.e. Page 1)
9. Citations must be observed throughout the document (i.e. superscripts) to avoid plagiarisms
and shall follow the APA format.
10. A “Reference(s)” section must be added at the end of the document as appendices bearing all
the citations of references.
11. All submissions must be channeled through the Learning Management System UTILIZED AND
MUST BE THE Portable Document Format (pdf)

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 COURSE REQUIREMENTS

In order to pass this course, a student must be able to obtain the rating of at least 80% and must comply
all the academic prescribed.

 Attendance and Online/Remote Class Activity Participation

 Major Examinations
 He had been able to accomplish required output
 Performance Tasks (T/L Activities)
 Problem-Based Learning/Project Based Learning

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

Student of these course is expected to:

 Observe the governing academic rules and policies of Colegio De San Francisco Javier of Rizal
Incorporated as stipulated on the Student Handbook.
 Be oriented with the basic skills and knowledge
 Punctuality to attend the online classes
 Regularly check and be up to date with the latest information and announcements in the Learning
Management System utilized of this course.
 Actively participate in discussion forums and observe proper language of communication in a
respectful manner.
 Acknowledge original content material owners to avoid any violations of the Intellectual Property
Rights.
 Comply all the academic requirement of the course in a neat and presentable manner.
 Actively share insights to improve rubrics for each requirement.
 Exhibit the values and characteristics of a Javerian.

GRADING SYSTEM
Attendance in Google Classroom Meetings - 10%
Interactive Participation during Google Meetings - 20%
Outputs on Work-Based Learning - 40%
Performances - 30 %
TOTAL 100 %

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

COVER PAGE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MODULAR ONLINE CLASSROOM POLICIES

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

COURSE EXPECTTATIONS

OBJECTIVE

CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION

 CONTENT DISCUSSION

 ASSESSMENT

 RUBRICS

 VIDEO WATCHING

 REFERENCE

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 COLEGIO DE SAN FRANCISCO JAVIER
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

Module 1-i THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS

I. Math in the Modern World

OBJECTIVES

 At the end of this module, the student would be able to:

1. Identify patterns in nature and regularities in the world.

2. Argue about the nature of mathematics what it is, how it is expressed, represented, and used.
3. Articulate the importance of mathematics in one’s life.
4. Express appreciation for mathematics as a human endeavor.

INTRODUCTION

We live in a universe of patterns. Human mind and culture have developed a formal system of thought for
recognizing, classifying, and exploiting patterns. We call it mathematics. By using mathematics to organize and
systematize our ideas about patterns, we have discovered a great secret: nature's patterns are not just there to be
admired, they are vital clues to the rules that govern natural processes.
Mathematics reveals hidden patterns that help us understand the world around us. Now much more than
arithmetic and geometry, mathematics today is a diverse discipline that deals with data, measurements, and observations
from science; with inference, deduction, and proof; and with mathematical models of natural phenomena, of human
behavior, and of social systems.
As a practical matter, mathematics is a science of pattern and order. Its domain is not molecules or cells, but
numbers, chance, form, algorithms, and change. As a science of abstract objects, mathematics relies on logic rather than
on observation as its standard of truth, yet employs observation, simulation, and even experimentation as means of
discovering truth.
The special role of mathematics in education is a consequence of its universal applicability. The results of
mathematics--theorems and theories--are both significant and useful; the best results are also elegant and deep. Through
its theorems, mathematics offers science both a foundation of truth and a standard of certainty.
In addition to theorems and theories, mathematics offers distinctive modes of thought which are both versatile and
powerful, including modeling, abstraction, optimization, logical analysis, inference from data, and use of symbols.
Experience with mathematical modes of thought builds mathematical power--a capacity of mind of increasing value in this
technological age that enables one to read critically, to identify fallacies, to detect bias, to assess risk, and to suggest
alternatives. Mathematics empowers us to understand better the information-laden world in which we live.

I CONTENT
DISCUSSION
WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?
• Mathematics is the study of pattern and structure. Mathematics is fundamental to the physical and
biological sciences, engineering and information technology, to economics and increasingly to the social
sciences.
• Mathematics is a useful way to think about nature and our world.
• Mathematics is a tool to quantify, organize and control our world, predict phenomena and make life easier
for us.
WHERE IS MATHEMATICS?
 Many patterns and occurrences exists in nature, in our world, in our life. Mathematics helps makes sense
of these patterns and occurrences.

WHAT ROLE DOES MATHEMATICS PLAY IN OUR WORLD?

 Mathematics helps organize patterns and regularities inn our world.
 Mathematics helps predict the behavior of nature phenomena in the world.
 Mathematics helps control nature and occurrences in the world for our own ends,
 Mathematics has numerous application in the world making it indispensable.

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 Patterns and Numbers in Nature and the World

Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world and can also be seen in the universe.
Nature patterns which are not just to be admired, they are vital clues to the rules that govern natural processes. Patterns
can be observed even in stars which move in circles across the sky each day.

The weather season cycle each year. All snowflakes contain six fold symmetry which no two are exactly the
same.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/19/wilson-bentley-snowflakes/

Patterns can be seen in fish patterns like spotted trunkfish, spotted puffer, blue spotted stingray, spotted
moral eel, coral grouper, redlion fish, yellow boxfish and angel fish. These animals and fish stripes and spots
attest to mathematical regularities in biological growth and form.

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Zebras, tigers, cats and snakes are covered in patterns of stripes; leopards and hyenas are covered in
pattern of spots and giraffes are covered in pattern of blotches.

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Natural patterns like the intricate waves across the oceans; sand dunes on deserts; formation of typhoon;
water drop with ripple and others. These serves as clues to the rules that govern the follow of water, sand and air.

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We are still learning to recognize new kinds of pattern. Only within the last thirty years has humanity
become explicitly aware of the two types of pattern now known as fractals and chaos.

Fractals are geometric shapes that repeat their structure on ever-finer scales. It is
a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-
similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process
over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are
images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in

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 between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals. For
instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract fractals – such as the
Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over. Chaos is a kind
of apparent randomness whose origins are entirely deterministic. Nature "knew about" these patterns billions of
years ago, for clouds are fractal and weather is chaotic

The simplest mathematical objects are numbers, and the simplest of nature's patterns are numerical. The phases
of the moon make a complete cycle from new moon to full moon and back again every twenty-eight days. The year is
three hundred and sixty-five days long-roughly.
People have two legs, cats have four, insects have six, and spiders have eight. Starfish have five arms (or ten,
eleven, even seventeen, depending on the species).
Clover normally has three leaves: the superstition that a four-leaf clover is lucky reflects a deep seated belief that
exceptions to patterns are special.

clover+leaf.html
A very curious pattern indeed occurs in the petals of flowers. In nearly all flowers, the number of petals is one of
the numbers that occur in the strange sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34. For instance, lilies have 1 petal, Euphorbia has 2
petals. Trillium has 3 petals, Columbine has 5 petals, Bloodroot has 8 petals, Black-eyed Susan has 13 petals, Shasta
Daisy has 21 petals and Field Daisies have 34 petals.

You don't find any other numbers anything like as often. There is a definite pattern to those numbers, but one that
takes a little digging out: each number is obtained by adding the previous two numbers together. For example, 1 + 2 = 3, 2
+ 3 = 5 and so on. The same numbers can be found in the spiral patterns of seeds in the head of a sunflower. This
particular pattern was noticed many centuries ago and has been widely studied ever since, but a really satisfactory
explanation was not given until 1993.
In addition to numerical patterns, there are geometric ones. First, the title sounds better without the "and shapes."
Second, mathematical shapes can always be reduced to numbers-which is how computers handle graphics. Each tiny dot
in the picture is stored and manipulated as a pair of numbers: how far the dot is along the screen from right to left, and
how far up it is from the bottom. These two numbers are called the coordinates of the dot. A general shape is a collection
of dots, and can be represented as a list of pairs of numbers. However, it is often better to think of shapes as shapes,
because that makes use of our powerful and intuitive visual capabilities, whereas complicated lists of numbers are best
reserved for our weaker and more laborious symbolic abilities.
Until recently, the main shapes that appealed to mathematicians were very simple ones: triangles, squares, pentagons,
hexagons, circles, ellipses, spirals, cubes, spheres, cones, and so on. All of these shapes can be found in nature,
although some are far more common, or more evident, than others.
The rainbow, for example, is a collection of circles, one for each color. We don't normally see the entire circle, just
an arc; but rainbows seen from the air can be complete circles. You also see circles in the ripples on a pond, in the human
eye, and on butterflies' wings.
In addition to patterns of form, there are patterns of movement. In the human walk, the feet strike the ground in a
regular rhythm: left-right-Ieft-right-Ieft-right. When a four-legged creature-a horse, say-walks, there is a more complex but
equally rhythmic pattern. This prevalence of pattern in locomotion extends to the scuttling of insects, the flight of birds, the
pulsations of jellyfish, and the wavelike movements of fish, worms, and snakes.

ASSESSMENT

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  ACTIVITY 1
Direction: On a short bond paper, cite at least 3 examples of nature’s patterns that you have observed
around you.

VIDEO
 Visit the links cited below for more references.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpvy36S6jEU
https://vimeo.com/9953368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2OlMAJj6o

REFERENCES

https://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/
https://www.scribd.com/document/413135891/mathematics-in-the-modern-world
https://ched.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KWF-Mathematics-in-the-Modern-World.pdf
https://services.math.duke.edu/undergraduate/Handbook96_97/node5.html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ck12.org%2Falgebra%2Forder-real-numbers
%2Flesson%2FReal-Number-Line-Graphs-ALG-I-HNRS%2F&psig=AOvVaw0apExXLL2tIfKhUivU-Sn-
&ust=1598334422448000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAMQjB1qFwoTCPjm__WRs-
sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/nature-golden-ratio-fibonacci.html
http://www.eniscuola.net/en/2016/06/27/the-numbers-of-nature-the-fibonacci-sequence/
Nature’s Numbers by Ian Stewart

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