COMMISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

SAINT BENEDICT COLLEG OF MAGUINDANAO INC,

Course Description:

This course deals with the nature of mathematics, appreciation of its practical, and aesthetic applications 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 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 pattern of
nature, for example, and a rich language in self (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 dividing limited resources fairly.
These aspects will provide opportunities for doing Mathematics in a broad range of exercises that bring out the various dimensions of Mathematics as a way of knowing and
testing the student’s understanding and capacity to use the afore-mentioned mathematical tools in daily life which also include statistical concepts and analyses that are needed in
the world of research

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the students would be able to:
Knowledge
1. Discuss and argue about the nature of mathematics, what is it, how it is expressed, represent, and used.
2. Use different types of reason to justify statements and arguments made about mathematics and mathematical concepts
3. Discuss the language and symbols of mathematics
Skills
4. Use a variety of statistical tools to process and manage numerical data
5. Analyze code 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
 Schedule Content Learning Competencies Teaching Learning Activities Evaluation ( Assessment Expected Values to be
(strategy and Class Activity) Task and outputs) developed
Week 1 Section 1. Nature of At the end of the topic, students  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
& Mathematics will be able to:  Lecture  Class  Hard work
Week 2 1. Identify patterns in nature and  Recitation Participation  Truth
1. Mathematics in the regularities in the world. 2.  Reporting and  Group Work
modern World Articulate the importance of Explanation
2. The Fibonacci mathematics in one’s life. 3. Argue
Sequence about the nature of mathematics,
what it is, how it is expressed,
represented, and used.
4. Express appreciation for
mathematics as a human
Week 3 Mathematical language and 5. Discuss the language, symbols,  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
Symbols and conventions of mathematicians.  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
6. Explain the nature of  Recitation  Class  Truth
mathematician as a language. 7.  Reporting and Participation
Perform operations on Explanation  Problem Set
mathematical expressions correctly.
8. Acknowledge that mathematics
is a useful language.
Week 4 PRELIM EXAMINATION
Schedule Content Learning Competencies Teaching Learning Activities Evaluation ( Assessment Expected Values to be
(strategy and Class Activity) Task and outputs) developed
Week 5 Problem Solving and 9. Use different types of reasoning  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
& Reasoning to justify statements and arguments  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
Week 6 made about mathematicians and  Recitation  Class  Truth
mathematical concepts. 10. Solve  Reporting and Participation
problems involving patterns and Explanation  Problem Set
recreational problems.

Week 7 *Polya’s 4 steps in problem 11. Organize one’s methods and  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
& solving approaches for proving and solving  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
Week 8 Problem strategies problems.  Recitation  Class  Truth
Mathematical 12. Solve problems involving  Reporting and Participation
Problems involving Patterns patterns and recreational problems. Explanation Problem Set
and Recreational
Week 9 MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
Week 10 Mathematics as a Tool 1. 13.Use a variety of statistical tools  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
Data Management to process and  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
manage numerical data.  Recitation  Class  Truth
Presenting data using graphs 14.Apply geometric concepts,  Reporting and Participation
and charts interpreting especially isometric in describing Explanation Problem Set
and creating designs

Week 11 1. Geometric Designs 15.Contribute to the enrichment of  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
and Graphs the Filipino culture and arts using  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
2. Binary code geometry  Recitation  Class  Truth
16. use coding scheme to encode  Reporting and Participation
and decode different types of Explanation Problem Set
information for identification, and
security purposes.
Week 12 1. Repetition and 17. Use mathematics concepts and  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
Hamming Codes. tools in other areas such as finance,  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
2. Linear Programming voting logic ,business, network and  Recitation  Class  Truth
systems  Reporting and Participation
Explanation Problem Set
Week 13 PRE- FINAL
Week 14 The Mathematics of Finance 18. Support the use of mathematics  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
in various aspects and endeavors in  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
life.  Recitation  Class  Truth
 Reporting and Participation
Explanation Problem Set
week 15 Apportionment and Voting 19. Gain familiarity with the  Discussion  Seatwork  Work attitude
apportionment of resources and  Lecture  Long Quiz  Hard work
voting done in the Philippines.  Recitation  Class  Truth
 Reporting and Participation
Explanation Problem Set

Week 16 FINAL
GRADING SYSTEM

Attendance - 10%
Assignments - 10%
Class Participation 15%
Quizzes - 15%
Examination - 50%
Total : 100%

Prepared by: Noted by: Approved By:

Gerlyn P. Ordonio Prof. Maria Roze M. Salcedo, MAED Prof. Ma. Carmen Echavez
Instructor Education Program Head School Administrator