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This working paper discusses patterns found in nature and their relationship to mathematics. It instructs students to take pictures of patterns like fractals, spirals, symmetry, tessellations, spots and stripes, cracks, chaos, flows and waves found in their environment. The document then explains that nature is complex and full of patterns that can be associated with mathematical concepts. It provides examples of natural patterns related to mathematics, such as spirals, symmetry, and how water flows. Finally, it states that identifying patterns in nature allows us to see how successfully organisms survive and adapt, and reveals how math underlies the structure and beauty of the world.

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Working Paper 1 - MMW

This working paper discusses patterns found in nature and their relationship to mathematics. It instructs students to take pictures of patterns like fractals, spirals, symmetry, tessellations, spots and stripes, cracks, chaos, flows and waves found in their environment. The document then explains that nature is complex and full of patterns that can be associated with mathematical concepts. It provides examples of natural patterns related to mathematics, such as spirals, symmetry, and how water flows. Finally, it states that identifying patterns in nature allows us to see how successfully organisms survive and adapt, and reveals how math underlies the structure and beauty of the world.

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Working Paper 1:

Dealing with Patterns in Nature

NAME:__________________________________________ Date: __________________________


Year/Block/Course: ________________________________________________

I. Instructions: Take pictures of the different patterns you can see in your environment (at you house, community,
school, etc). Be able to fill out the necessary picture indicated to a certain type of pattern. Do not use pictures
taken from the internet. Be creative and use your own captured image. (These captured images will be used to
your succeeding activities.)

1. Fractals

2. Spirals

3. Symmetry
(Reflection)
4. Symmetry
(Rotation)

5. Tessellations

6. Spots and
Stripes

7. Cracks

8. Chaos
9. Flows

10. Waves

II. Watch this short video


The world is a very vast place and everywhere you look nature is there. Even nature is very complex and
there is much to discover and understand about it. It is part of the physical world which includes all types of
plants, animals, landscapes, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human
creations. It is all the naturally occurring things on this planet. Nature is our best friend, our very own natural
provider, which provides us all of the resources to live here. It gives us water to drink, pure air to breathe, food
to eat, land to stay on, animals, plants for our other uses, everything and anything for our betterment. Although
nature is mainly associated with Science we should also see it with a mathematically precise eye and way. As
nature is all around, Mathematics is too. Some of us do not have an idea that almost everything is partly made
and composed of mathematical concepts. To define Math, it is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of
numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities
and their changes. Mathematics is a fundamental part of nature. You can spot Mathematics all around us from
pavements that are in a very bad state, from the barks of trees, from the swaying of grass, from the patterns of
a cat’s coat, from naturally occurring phenomena and many other occurrences and objects. Nature has different
patterns that is and can be associated to Math. Math is present in the surroundings around us. One can say that
Math is the foundation of the physical world alongside with nature. We have what we call as Nature’s Patterns.
Patterns like these shape nature and the world around us. Some are spirals, some are symmetrical, some are
formed from fragments, some have stripes and dots, how water flows and even how sand slides down. All these
patterns are related to Math. Math is an essential component of nature that gives structure to the physical world.
Even before the discovery of Math, Math was present. Most of the features mentioned are found in nature are
used by plants and animals to survive and adapt to its surroundings. You may think that these features and
patterns are all for show, but scientifically speaking it is used for their survival for them to survive harsh
environments and also for natural selection. Finding patterns in nature is a way of noticing survival strategies
that are repeated among organisms. The patterns that are found most frequently in nature tend to represent
particularly successful strategies. These patterns benefit everything that is in its scope. To show beauty, to show
adaptability, to show survival. Learning about the different patterns allow us to see and discover the presence of
Math in the environment we live in and it gives us an idea of how the world is composed and how beautifully
complex everything really is with Math.

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