Handout 1 - Pre-lims - Mathematics in the Modern World

We tend to think this as sequences or designs that are orderly and that repeat.

• Patterns

• Sequence

• Series

• Fractals

It is a list of items or objects in sequencial way.

• Pattern

• Sequence

• Series

• Symmetry

An arrangement of two or more things in a successive order.

• Pattern

• Sequence

• Series

• Symmetry

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10} is an example of:

• Pattern

• Sequence

• Series

• Symmetry

The sum of a list of numbers that are generating according to some pattern or rule.

• Pattern

• Sequence

• Series

• Fibonacci Pattern

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 is an example of:

• Pattern

• Sequence

• Series

• Fibonacci Pattern

Is when different sides of something are alike. They are proportion or balance.

• Symmetry

• Fractals

• Spirals

• Fibonacci Pattern

Reflections may be mirror images with only two sides like the two sides of our bodies.

• Symmetry

• Fractals

• Spirals

• Fibonacci Pattern

The never ending patterns that repeat indefinitely as the pattern is iterated on an infinitely smaller scale.

• Symmetry

• Fractals

• Spirals

• Fibonacci Pattern

We see this type of pattern in trees, rivers, mountains, shells, clouds, leaves, lightning, and more.

• Symmetry

• Fractals

• Spirals

• Fibonacci Pattern