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The document discusses patterns found in nature involving hexagonal and rhombus shapes, and the underlying mathematical concepts of geometry and symmetry. It also addresses perspective in drawings using concepts like vanishing points. Examples of rotational and reflectional symmetries in a square shape are provided.

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Activity 2 - Gec05

The document discusses patterns found in nature involving hexagonal and rhombus shapes, and the underlying mathematical concepts of geometry and symmetry. It also addresses perspective in drawings using concepts like vanishing points. Examples of rotational and reflectional symmetries in a square shape are provided.

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GEC 05: Mathematics in the Modern World

BSAcc-1C

Activity 2: Math, Nature and Arts

Observe the following patterns found in nature

1. What shapes are predominant in the following figure.


The shapes that are predominant in the figures are hexagon for the first and second picture, while
rhombus or diamond for the third picture.

2. In each of the figure, discuss briefly the mathematics behind such patterns.
In first figure, the mathematics behind such pattern is geometry, because it used the hexagonal shape.
The bees used hexagonal shape to have or make honeycomb with more spaces.
While, in the second figure, the mathematics behind such pattern is symmetry, because it is said that
pattern at the back of turtles indicates its bilateral symmetric anatomy.
And, in the third figure which is snowflake, I think the mathematics behind this is also symmetry. For
example, when you cut this eight-pointed snowflake in the middle, both halves of the snowflake will be equal.

TRUE/ FALSE
TRUE 3. The principal vanishing point of the painting is so far away that it cannot be seen in the painting
TRUE 4. In drawing a flat desert, one must apply perspectivity.
TRUE 5. In a painting of train tracks that run perpendicular to the canvas, the principal vanishing
point is the place in the painting where the two rails meet.

Your instructor wants near objects to look nearby and far objects to look far away in your drawing.
Make your own illustration using the concept of perspectivity.

Near objects to look nearby


Far objects to look far away

Draw a square. Determine all the rotational and reflection symmetries present in the figure. Briefly
explain your answer.

The square has four rotational symmetries.


And for me to determine the rotational
symmetries of the square I labeled the four
side of the figure as Side A, Side B, Side C
and Side D, then I imagined I was manually
rotating the shape.

The square has four reflection symmetry. I


was able to find out the reflection
symmetries of the square by placing
imaginary lines to the figure. I put
horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines and I
noticed that when I put the imaginary lines
to the figure the one side reflected the
other equally.

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