Session 02-03. What Is Mathematics

What is
Mathematics?
SESSION 02-03
SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY
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Objectives
Determine the nature of mathematics
Identify the link between concepts of mathematics
and its real-life applications
Appreciate the different domains of mathematics and
its real-life applications

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ACTIVITY
Instruction
Group yourselves into six

groups.
Assign a Leader, Material
Manager, Notetaker, and
Presenter.
Give a name of your group.
Decide a 5-second yell. You
are given 5 minutes to
prepare.
A task will be given and each
correct answer is equivalent to
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What comes next?

ACTIVITY 1

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What comes next? (TRIAL)

M V E M ___
J for Jupiter
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O T T F F S S E N _?
T for ten
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A E I M Q _?
U

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J M M J A O _?
D - DECEMBER

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T Q P H H O N _?
D - DECAGON

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2 4 5 7 9 11 _?
13 LOCAL TV CHANNELS

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1 9 25 49 81 _?
121

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What comes next?

A B C E F G _?
I

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What comes next?

A J S_?
N NOVEMBER, MONTH
WITH EXACTLY 30 DAYS
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What comes next?

0, 1, 16, 81, 256, ___
625
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What comes next?

Unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, ________
4 wheelers
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Score Recap
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Wordles
ACTIVITY 2

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Exit
TRIAL
Fire Exit
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1 at 7:25
one at a time
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1
hole in one

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Cockroach
Bees
Beetle
bunny
bugs bunny
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8:30 AM
time table
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HIJKLMNO
water (H2O) or
(H to O)
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S
T
E
P
S
S
T
E
P
S
in between steps
in

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January.
February.
May.
March.
June.
April.
July.
Septembe
monthly
periods
r.
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Sun
Rose
Sunflower
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star
star
star
star
star
General
5 star General
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Bridg
ewater
Water under the Bridge
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Score Recap
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Mathinik
ACTIVITY 3

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Mathinik
How many ways can 6 students be
arranged in a line at the door?
6! = 6 5 4 3 2 1 =
720
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FOUR
PICS
ONE
WORD
C
Q U A R T I L E S
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Mathinik
Find the measure of angle 1.
36
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Mathinik
Find the fraction equivalent given
2
1 number
a mixed
7
9/7

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Mathinik
What are the zeros of the function
f x x 2 7 x 18
9, -2

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Score Recap
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What were the items you find it difficult to

answer? Why?
ANALYSIS
In the task What comes

next?
What were the items you find it easy to answer?

Why?
What were your strategies in finding the next
term of the sequences?

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What were the items you find it difficult to

answer? Why?
ANALYSIS
In the task What comes

next?
What were the items you find it easy to answer?

Why?
What were your strategies in finding the next
term of the sequences?

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How did you find the items/statements?
ANALYSIS
What do they all emphasize?

How do you relate mathematics with the task?
In the task Wordles

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Which topic you find challenging?
ANALYSIS
How do you address those challenges?

How important your math knowledge in
answering the questions?
In the task Mathinik

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Watch the audio-visual

presentation and write as many
insights as you can from it?
Abstraction
DONALD IN THE MATHMAGIC

LAND

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What insights did you gained from the audiovisual presentation?

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Mathematics is
The Science of Numbers
Problem Solving
Theorem Proving
The Science of Reasoning
The Science of Patterns (Keith Devlin)

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Mathematics is like
A language
A science
An art
A process

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Mathematics is
Vast (Mac Lanes Connections)
Performed in a wide variety of ways
By a wide variety of people

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What is mathematics?
Math is a study of patterns and so math helps us
in the study of human nature.
Since mathematics utilizes reasoning in such a fundamental way, studying
mathematics and its practitioners gives us insight into the workings of the
human mind. In particular, mathematicians see themselves as needing to be
very creative. Many non-mathematicians (artists, musicians, poets, . . .) are
involved in activities which are more traditionally associated with creativity.
How do these two facets of creativity relate to one another?
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Keith Devlin on the Nature of Mathematics

Mathematics is the Science of Patterns
Not only the patterns of numbers (arithmetic)
But also the patterns of shapes (geometry),
reasoning (logic), motion (calculus), surfaces and
knots (topology), etc.
Reference:
Mathematics--The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe
(Scientific American Paperback Library)
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Math is a language and so mathematics has
helped to de-mystify nature and help us
understand nature in its own sake.
Mathematics is the only language shared by all human beings regardless of culture,
religion, or gender. Pi is still approximately 3.14159 regardless of what country you
are in. With this language we can explain the mysteries of the universe or the
secrets of DNA. We can understand the forces of planetary motion, discover cures
for catastrophic diseases, or calculate the distance from Boston to Bangkok. We can
make chocolate chip cookies or save money for retirement. We can build computers
and transfer information across the globe. Math is not just for calculus majors. It's
for all of us
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Math is a mental discipline and so mathematics
raises and informs the discussion of philosophical
issues.
Kline notes that "perhaps the most profound questions in the realm of
philosophy are, What is truth and how does man acquire it?"For two
thousand years, philosophers grappled wit
h how to understand "2+2=4" and its relationship to other "truth".
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, found in mathematics the
method by which he thought all truth was to be established. On the other
hand, the last 150 years have seen a revolution in mathematics and its
philosophical "implications"
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What do mathematicians do?

Add, Multiply, Subtract, Divide, etc.
Do Algebra, Make Geometry T-Proofs
Solve Problems, Model Nature
Experiment, Conjecture, Prove
Precisely identify assumptions (axioms)
Precisely define terms
Categorize, Classify, Generalize, Reason

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Show the conjecture is false by finding a

counterexample.
Conjecture: For all real numbers x, the
expressions x2 is greater than or equal to x.
Diffusion can be described by a heat equation

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Math is an art and so mathematicians search for
beauty.
Art is beautiful, music is beautiful, a woman is beautiful, a sunset is

beautiful,.... But math
is beautiful?? Well, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

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Leonardo, The Last Supper,

c1497
The perspective is an integral part of the

painting
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Do you see the golden rectangle?

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Patterns of sea shells

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Patterns of tropical fishes
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Math is a tool for sciences and other disciplines
and so math has practical value.
This is the use of mathematics as it relates to technology as well as every
day life. Even the person who has no interest in the details of technology has
some appreciation for the contribution it makes to our quality of life. While
there is some reason for critiquing a technological view of life, there are
definite benefits of technology to which mathematics has contributed
significantly.

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Discovery of
DNA
structure
Francis Crick (Cambridge University)

James Watson (Harvard University)
http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/watsoncrick.pdf
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Pascals Calculating Machine

In 1642-1645, he designed a
mechanical calculator to assist
his fathers role of examining all
tax records of the Province of
Normandy.
Provided a monopoly (patent)
in 1649 by the king of France.
Source: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html

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All things proceed from the Nothing,

and are borne towards the Infinite.
PASCAL

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Create an essay consisting of at least 500

words excluding articles (e.g. the, a, an).
The essay focuses on how you see
mathematics as vital and valuable
discipline. REFRAIN FROM PLAGIARISM.
APPLICATION
1. Post the output on your own personal

Facebook account with hashtag
#gedmath01. Do not campaign for likes
or comments from anyone.
2. After two weeks, submit a copy of your
essay (in PNU template), typewritten,
Times New Roman, 12, with cover page
(to be provided). Attach a screenshot of
the Facebook Post. The essay post must
show the date it was posted, number of
likes and the comments (if there are any).
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Group yourselves into six

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY

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SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

What were the items you find it difficult to

In the task What comes

What were the items you find it easy to answer?

SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY

What were the items you find it difficult to

In the task What comes

What were the items you find it easy to answer?

SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY

How did you find the items/statements?

What do they all emphasize?

In the task Wordles

SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY

Which topic you find challenging?

How do you address those challenges?

In the task Mathinik

SESSION 02-03. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

ROLDAN S. CARDONA, FACULTY

Watch the audio-visual