This document discusses how patterns and numbers are found throughout nature and the world. It explains that mathematics is the key to understanding the physical world by finding patterns, representing them, and interpreting them. Some examples of patterns in nature include symmetries, spirals in trees, meanders, waves, and foams. Patterns are important because they offer clues to an underlying order and allow that order to be altered or shaped.

1. PATTERNS AND
NUMBERS IN NATURE
AND THE WORLD
JOHN WILDEN ELLORRINCO
SBIE-1B

2. MATHEMATICS IS THE ABSTRACT KEY
WHICH TURNS THE LOCK
OF
THE PHYSICAL WORLD
- John Polkinghorn

3. 3 steps to understand the world by
using math
1. Find patterns
2. Represent
Patterns
3. Interpret Patterns

4. Examples of Patterns

5. What Are Patterns?
• Is the repeated or regular way in which something
happens or is done.
• Is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a
design in which the same shape is repeated at
regular intervals over a surface.

6. What are patterns in numbers?
• Number pattern is a pattern or sequence in
a series of numbers. This pattern generally
establishes a common relationship between
all numbers

7. Examples:
• 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25…
• 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14…

8. PATTERNS IN NATURE

9. What is
it?
• Patterns in nature are
visible regularities of form
found in the natural world.
These patterns recur in
different contexts and can
sometimes be modelled
mathematically.

10. Natural patterns includes:
Symmetries
Trees Spiral

11. Meander
s Waves Foams

12. • Those are just some examples of patterns in nature. There are many
more that nature can give.
• Patterns are important because they offer visual clues to an
underlying order. If you can unlock a pattern, then you have the
ability to alter or shape it in order to achieve some effect.