COURSE GUIDE

Course: Mathematics in the Modern World Semester 1st School Year: 2023-2024

Class Schedule: Instructor:

Course Description:

This course deals with the nature of mathematics, appreciation of its practical, intellectual, and
aesthetic dimensions, and application of mathematical tools in daily life.

The course begins with an introduction to the nature of mathematics as an exploration of patterns (in
nature and the environment) and as an application of inductive and deductive reasoning. By exploring
these topics, students are encouraged to go beyond the typical understanding of mathematics as merely
a set of formulas but as a source of aesthetics in patters of nature, for example, and a rich language in
itself (and of science) governed by logic and reasoning.

The course then proceeds to survey ways in which mathematics provides a tool for understanding
and dealing with various aspects of present-day living such as managing personal finances, making
social choices, appreciating geometric designs, understanding codes used in data transmission and
security, and living limited resources fairly. These aspects will provide opportunities for actually doing
mathematics in a broad range of exercises that bring out the various dimensions of mathematics as a
way of knowing, and test the students’ understanding and capacity. (CMO 20, series of 2013).

Course Outline

SCHEDULE TOPIC

Week 1 1. THE NATURE OF MATHEMATICS

1.1 Patterns And Numbers in Nature and the World

Week 2 1.2 The Fibonacci Sequence

1.3 Mathematics for Our World

Week 3 2. SPEAKING MATHEMATICALLY

2.1 Variables

2.2 The Language of Sets

2.3 The Language of Relations and Functions

Week 4 3. PROBLEM SOLVING

3.1 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

Week 5 3.2 Problem Solving with Patterns

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Week 6 3.3 Problem Solving Strategies

Week 7 4. DATA MANAGEMENT

4.1 Data Gathering and Organizing, Representing and Interpreting Organized Data
4.2 Measures of Central Tendency
4.3 Measures of Dispersion
4.4 Measures of Relative Position
Week 8 4.5 Probabilities and Normal Distributions
4.6 Linear Regression and Correlation

Week 9 MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Week 10 CHAPTER 5: LOGIC

5.1 Logic Statements and Quantifiers

5.2 Truth Tables, Equivalent Statements and Tautologies

Week 11 5.3 The Conditional and the Bi-conditional

5.4 The Conditional and Related Statements

Week 12 5.5 Symbolic Arguments

5.6 Arguments and Euler Diagrams

Week 13 CHAPTER 6: THE MATHEMATICS OF GRAPHS

6.1 Graphs and Euler Circuits

Week 14 6.2 Weighted Graphs

Week 15 6.3 Planarity and Euler’s Formula

6.4 Graph Coloring

Week 16 CHAPTER 7: APPORTIONMENT AND VOTING

7.1 Introduction to Apportionment

Week 17 7.2 Introduction to Voting

7.3 Weighted Voting Systems

Week 18 FINAL EXAMINATION

Course Requirements

Required Output
Course Learning Outcomes :
After completing this course, the student must be able to:
1. Discuss and make about the nature of mathematics, what it is,
how it is expressed, represented and used; Math vignette

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 2. Use different types of reasoning to justify statements and
arguments made about mathematics and mathematical
concepts’
3. Discuss the languages and symbols of mathematics

4. Use a variety of statistical tools to process and manage

numerical data;
5. Analyze codes and coding schemes used for identification,
privacy, and security purposes;
6. Use mathematics in other areas such as finance, voting, health
and medicine, business, environment, arts and design, and
recreation;
7. Appreciate the nature and uses of mathematics in everyday life.

8. Affirm honesty and integrity in the appreciation of mathematics of

various human endeavors
Course Policies Grading System

1. To ensure successful completion of this 1. There will be 4 rating periods: Preliminary, Mid-
course, students are expected to arrive for term, Pre-finals and Finals
class on time and to remain in class until the 2. The grades for each rating period shall be
end of the class session. computed as:
2. All students are expected to behave with 60% - Class Standing
academic honesty. It is not academically 40% - Major Examination
honest to misrepresent another person’s work Grade for the corresponding rating period
as your own, to take credit for someone else’s 3. Mid-term Grade = (preliminary +Mid-term)/2
words or ideas, to obtain advanced information 4. Final Grade = (Pre-finals + Finals)/2
on confidential test materials, or to act in a Average Grade = (Mid-term Grade + Final
way that might harm another students’ Grade)/2
chances for academic success. These
students will automatically have a grade of 5.0
after three (3) offenses of academic
dishonesty.
3. Assignments should be submitted on the set
deadline. Late assignments will be deducted
accordingly.
4. All students are expected to take Major Exams
(Mid-term/Finals) on the specified day. In
general, no make-up test or re-test will be
given except when circumstances warrant but
with valid supporting documents presented.
5. Group activities will be part of the class
participation. Students should participate
actively or get involved in group dynamics and
other group assignments.
6. All students are expected to attend classes in
the prescribed uniform

References:

Aufman, Richard N., Lockwood, Joanne S., Nation Richard D., Clegg, Daniel K. and Epp S. 2018.

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 Mathematics in the Modern World Philippine Edition, Rex Bookstore, Inc.

Aufman, Richard N., Lockwood, Joanne S., Nation Richard D., and Clegg, Daniel K. 2017. Mathematics
Excursions. 3rd edition. CENAGE Learning

Bunch, Bryan H., and Everett T. 2003. The World of Math Power. World Book: Chicago, IL

Chan, J., Miro, D., and Quiming, R. 2016. General Mathematics. Vibal Group , Inc.

Plummer, David. 2011. Language, Proof and Logic. 2nd Edition, CSL Publishing

Salzman, Stanley A., and Gary Clendenen. 2013. Mathematics for Business. 10th Edition. Pearson
Production Ltd.

Stewart, Ian, 2005. Nature’s Numbers. Basic Books.

Williams, Walter E., and Reed, James. 2015. Fundamentals of Business Mathematics. 7tth Edition.
Hawkes Learning.

Consultation Schedule

Prepared by:

REBECCA A. CORRE

Assistant Professor

Approved:

FOR. EDGAR PEQUE

Head, BSES Program

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