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    This document discusses how mathematics is present in both our daily lives and the natural world through patterns. It explains that patterns can be seen everywhere from symmetry and tessellation to fractals and spirals. These mathematical concepts in nature include brick pavements, textile weaves, egg crates, staircases and more. Recognizing patterns has helped humans understand complex relationships and concepts. The document argues that mathematics reveals nature's beauty and allows us to better understand and describe the world, even if it is abstract and intangible.

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    This document discusses how mathematics is present in both our daily lives and the natural world through patterns. It explains that patterns can be seen everywhere from symmetry and tessellation to fractals and spirals. These mathematical concepts in nature include brick pavements, textile weaves, egg crates, staircases and more. Recognizing patterns has helped humans understand complex relationships and concepts. The document argues that mathematics reveals nature's beauty and allows us to better understand and describe the world, even if it is abstract and intangible.

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    This document discusses how mathematics is present in both our daily lives and the natural world through patterns. It explains that patterns can be seen everywhere from symmetry and tessellation to fractals and spirals. These mathematical concepts in nature include brick pavements, textile weaves, egg crates, staircases and more. Recognizing patterns has helped humans understand complex relationships and concepts. The document argues that mathematics reveals nature's beauty and allows us to better understand and describe the world, even if it is abstract and intangible.

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    This document discusses how mathematics is present in both our daily lives and the natural world through patterns. It explains that patterns can be seen everywhere from symmetry and tessellation to fractals and spirals. These mathematical concepts in nature include brick pavements, textile weaves, egg crates, staircases and more. Recognizing patterns has helped humans understand complex relationships and concepts. The document argues that mathematics reveals nature's beauty and allows us to better understand and describe the world, even if it is abstract and intangible.

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    CABRAL, Mary Joy B.

    May 10, 2021


    2AR-7 MMW

    Mathematics in the Modern World

    Mathematics has always been perceived as a direct study and discipline but in

    reality, it is multi-layered and multifaceted— revolving around both logic and creativity. In

    our human minds, mathematics is a creation of ideas, processes, and reasoning

    concerning different aspects of life that creates an order and structure. This science that

    deals with numbers isn’t all about figures and digits but if you look at the bigger picture,

    it is more of abstract and spatial thinking, critical thinking, problem solving, and

    communicating. The elaboration of the true meaning of mathematics in our lives takes

    us to a brighter perspective of how mathematics has served its purpose on the

    betterment of society and our environment.

    Relating mathematics to nature and our world, it is broad and complex— like a

    tree, it is branching out in various directions and has always been part of people’s lives

    from the origin. But how do we witness math in nature and the world? We see them

    through patterns—in symmetry, tessellations, fractals, spirals, negation, condition

    proposition, languages, and symbols.

    Patterns are discernible regularity in the world seen through elements that repeat

    in a predictable manner. The ability to recognize and create patterns can build

    predictions based on observations. Personally, as the most recognizable, we can see

    patterns in symmetry through the exact image seen when turned, slid, and flipped in
    reflectional, rotational, and translational symmetry. In repeated cubes or tiles, we are

    able to create tessellations. In never ending patterns in definite smaller scales, we see

    fractals. Curves emanate from a point moving further away as it revolves around

    creating spirals. Negation comes from the opposite of statements, and conditional

    proposition stems from the “if” clause. Lastly, languages and symbols are the foundation

    of computer science, a branch of mathematics which includes codes, algorithms,

    applications and programs.

    We may not notice these daily but these mathematical concepts have a genuine

    role and connection to us. Our brick pavements in our neighborhood. Weaving in

    textiles in our clothing. Egg crates in our kitchens. Staircases in our homes. Paw prints

    of our dogs and cats. Silhouettes in wood furniture and the sprouts in plants placed

    above them. These are just some of the patterns we say everyday and the ability to

    recognize these patterns has helped us eventually in understanding complex concepts

    and relationships in life.

    The patterns we see in the world unveils the true beauty of mathematics as the

    greatest achievement of humanity, and how it will continue to gradually discover and

    cultivate our world. Mathematics itself is abstract and intangible. It is not the exact

    explanation of the world and universe we live in but rather a beautifully articulated

    language used to communicate the phenomena happening around us. Mathematics

    speaks for nature that can’t think or express for itself. This allows us to see the gap

    between reality and humans that teaches us how to bridge and connect it all together.

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