Name: Estillero, Jurilyn E.

Score
Program & Year: INT-2 Section: E02 GED102 - MMW
Exercise 1.1
Student No.: 2018122702 Date: June 05, 2020 4th Quarter 2019-2020

1. To address the problem of traffic in a big city, several straight roads are being constructed. It was
noted that two roads will have at most one junction, three roads will have at most three junctions,
and so on.

a. Complete the table below. Identify the pattern on the maximum number of junctions for each given
number of straight roads.

No. of Roads 2 3 4 5 6
Max. No. of Intersections 1 4 8 13 19

b. At most how many junctions are expected to be constructed if there will be seven roads in the city?
➢ There are twenty-six (26) expected to be constructed if there will be seven roads in the city.

2. Why are numbers important in our life? Answer in at least three (3) sentences.
➢ Numbers are truly part of our life from the day we are born. It is very essential to us human,
because we live in a world that was created by numbers. Numbers are as important as the
alphabet, language, and culture, that we used to communicate and survived. Without this
single number our world might remain stand still.
3. Enumerate five (5) situations where you have to use numbers.
➢ Numbers are used in our day to day living and survival. Such as money which we used to buy
for our essential needs and wants. Events which recorded every single day, month, year, and
even time that is composed of numbers. It uses to complete our identity as it identifies our
age. In terms of cooking and preparing meals, numbers were also involved by the idea of
proportion and percentage. Specially now during this pandemic, calculating the number of
deaths, recoveries, and cases.
4. Describe three patterns of shapes that you see in nature. Discuss briefly the “mathematics” behind
such patterns.
➢ The three example patterns of shapes that I usually see in nature are the honeycomb, ocean
waves, and cracks. This sample given pattern has its mathematical explanation behind them.
according to some explanation, honeycomb, in geometry is a space filling or similar packing
of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells that no gaps exist. This is an example of a more
general tiling or tessellation in mathematics in any number of dimensions. For a honeycomb
of n-dimensional space, its dimension can be explained as n-honeycomb. According to
Bhardwaj, S (2015) ocean waves are motions that carry energy over a medium. Fascinating
 cresting forms seem to personify sea creatures as they swell, roll, and break on the shore.
Over the centuries complex mathematical calculations and properties were developed to
explain them. While cracks are being overlooked for being so common. It is often a pattern
engineers want to avoid a crack in a bridge, or a road or a glass, for example. Engineers spend
a lot of time trying to find out whether a crack will turn into a disaster. (Jenkins, P. 2017)

5. Identify and describe at least one pattern that you observe in your locality or within your nearby
environment.

➢ Throughout nature, patterns are evident from regularities observed in the natural world.
These patterns recur in various contexts and can sometimes be mathematically modelled. As
I observe in my environment here in province, one pattern that catches my attention are the
brick walls of each houses. Patterns that are in different bond such as the running bond,
common bond, and the english bond.
Reference:

Bhardwaj, S. (2015). Mathematics of Ocean Waves. Retrieved from

https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/mathematics-of-ocean-waves/

Jenkins, P. (2018). The Mathematics of Nature's Patterns. Retrieved from

https://curiodyssey.org/blog/mathematics-of-natures-patterns/

Honeycomb (geometry). (2020). Retrieved from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_(geometry)