Activity 01 MMW

Reniane Madeleine T.
Metica
BSIT-1B
Mathematics in Modern World
1. What are the new things you’ve learned about the nature of
Mathematics?
I’ve learned that the birth of Mathematics is when our ancestors perceived that
“forms” can be seen in our surroundings, and thus it became a chain reaction that
led to our understanding of measurements and patterns. These patterns that they
saw in their everyday life, brought life to the concepts of shapes, that perhaps
grew to more complicated topics such as geometry. These shapes helped build
human culture because of the practical function it gives us. For instance, an
airplane’s wings have a unique shape, and it is shaped that way so airplanes could
fly. It is not because of its speed, but because of air resistance around its wings.
And further improving our understanding of Mathematics, nothing was impossible
even if it seemed to be, like how ancient people carved a giant building of
sandstone in 600 years, and how Egyptians built the pyramids. It was the birth of
multiple civilizations that keeps on prospering even now. And it’s mind-blowing
how the ancestors saw it just by observing the natural world. From plants we could
see fractals, and animals we could see different kinds of patterns. Which is why
Mathematical realm of patterns is interconnected with the Natural world, and
resting in our human mind all this time, we just need to tap it, and be curious
enough to understand it.
2. What aspect of the lesson significantly changed your view about

Mathematics?
It changed my view that learning mathematics is about knowing what is the

problem, learning how to solve that problem, which leads to understanding, and
not just merely memorizing the written formulas. There is a reason why formulas
exist, but mostly it is not explained well or not at all which is probably why some
students don’t like Math, when Math could have been a beautiful, mind-blowing
subject like Science. I also like how Mathematics prioritizes the process and
development and not just the results. Like how Newton’s theory about gravity was
further improved by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s a learning process through
making progress and not about chasing perfection. Because although
Mathematics doesn't have flaws, it was made through gruesome trials and errors.
But the part that mostly brought impact to me in this lesson is the “Mathematics is
Everywhere” because, I do believe that Mathematics could be found everywhere,
perhaps even before we existed. Ironically, humans created Mathematics, however
Mathematics showed us answers that there is Mathematics ever since the birth of
the Universe. Scientists discovered the Big Bang by finding clues around the
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and tracing the earliest galaxies, and
now we are seeing numbers how old the universe is, and the diameter of the
observable universe, all possible with Mathematics. Moving forward at the speed
of light, scientists could predict different possibilities of the future with
Mathematics, like how in approximately 1 billion years, the Sun will evaporate into
Red Giant, consuming the first four planets of the Solar System, and towards at the
end of the time all black holes have evaporated their last energy, this could lead to
the Big Crunch an opposite of Big Bang. There is Mathematics in time, and time
can tell what happened, what happens, and what could possibly happen. But it isn’t
just the past, present, and future. There is Mathematics starting from the biggest
cosmic scale of the edge of the observable Universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon,
down to the theoretically most extreme, smallest place in the Universe, the Planck
Length, where matter seems to pop up and disperse so quickly and unstable,
Which according to Mathematics, a planck length is 10 trillion times smaller than a
Hydrogen atom. And lastly, Mathematics can be seen even to things that might be
beyond our comprehension as of now, namely the 11 dimensions of the Universe.
Geometry can be used to theoretically illustrate how these dimensions differ. A
straight line(1d), a shape(2d), a cube(3d), a tesseract(4d), and so on. Albeit the
complexity of Mathematics, some things still remain a mystery, such as the motion
of excited hot molecules of water when it is being heated, moving at random
directions. It is not like Mathematics cannot solve everything, it is just we are at
the golden moments of discovery, until another scientist shouted “Eureka” and
found the answer.
3. What is the most important contribution of Mathematics in
humankind?
I think the most important contribution of Mathematics to humankind is it being

brought to existence, and us being able to use it in our everyday lives.
Mathematics could help us improve as a person, as a student, as a teacher, and so
on. Since Mathematics is everywhere, we could almost connect it to anything we
are doing. From juggling daily tasks, we learned how to manage our time and
priorities so we do not get burnout and overwork. Math could be used to solve
almost any kind of problem, from financial problems, to something practical. Like
how artists even know how to draw, just like in Mathematics, they start with the
fundamentals, instead of numbers, they measure with negative and positive space.
They experiment with different shades of colors, and different amounts to get hues
and values. It’s almost invisible to our eyes, but we are dealing with Mathematics
everyday, even if we say we are bad at Math. After all, Math is more than just
numbers and letters and formulas, it is about problem-solving. And I conclude, it
is the greatest achievement that Mathematics can offer us as we, considering how
small we are, are still significant to the Universe we are living in. Mathematics
sparked our curiosity, and became the tool to solve problems, and ask questions,
and thus discover phenomena and mysteries we did not know were lying around us
all this time.

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2. What aspect of the lesson significantly changed your view about

It changed my view that learning mathematics is about knowing what is the

I think the most important contribution of Mathematics to humankind is it being

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