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Mathematics in the Modern World

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Mathematical

language and
Symbols
Mathematical Language and
Symbol
• Language is the system of words, signs and
symbols which people use to express ideas,
thoughts and feelings. Language consists of the
words, their pronunciation and the methods of
combining them to be understood by a
community. Language is a systematic means of
communicating ideas or feelings by the use of
conventionalized signs, sound, gestures or
marks having understood meanings.
According to Kenny, hancewics, heuer, metsisto,
and turtle. These four main actions are:
• Modeling and formulating – creating appropriate representations
and relationships to mathematize the original problem.
• Transforming and manipulating – changing the mathematical form
in which a problem is originally expressed to equivalent forms
that represent solutions.
• Inferring – applying derived results to the original problem
situation, and interpreting and generalizing the results in that light.
• Communicating – reporting what has been learned about a
problem to a specified audience.
Characteristic of mathematical
language
•Mathematics is about ideas –
relationships, quantities, processes,
measurements, reasoning and so
on.
Three important ways

• Mathematical language is non temporal.


There is no past, present, or future in
mathematics.
• Mathematical language is devoid of
emotional content
• Mathematical language is precise
For students:

• Students learn how to do math, they must


also learn how to say and articulate what
they learn. They must learn to recognize and
answer “why” questions so they will
develop problem solving skills. It is most
important to learn the concepts and use the
symbolism as a tool of communication.
Mathematical expression and
sentences
• One of the objectives in learning mathematics is for
students to be able to confidently speak about it. It is
important that students are competent to discuss ideas
and explain how they solve mathematics problem or
what the consequences and possibilities are if they use
the wrong process. Math words, expressions and
sentences can help students explain what they think.
Operational terms and symbol
ADDITION SUBTRACTION MULTIPLCATION DIVISION
[+] [-] [ X, * , () ] [ / and ÷ ]
• Plus • Minus • Multiplied by • Divided by
• The sum of • The difference • The product of • The quotient
the increase of • Times of of
by total • Decreased by • per
• Added to • Subtracted
form
Multivariate Mathematical
expressions have more than one
variable
Mathematical expressions
• The terms of a mathematical expression is
separated from other terms with either plus or
minus signs. A single term may contain an
expression in parentheses or other grouping
symbols.
Mathematical sentence
• Combines two mathematical expressions using a
comparison operators. These extensions either use
numbers, variable, or both. The comparison operators
include, not equal, greater than, greater than or equal
to, less than or less than or equal to.
An open sentence and closed
sentence
• Open sentence – in math means that is uses
variables, meaning that it is not known whether
or not the mathematical sentence is true or
false.
• Close sentence – on the other hand, is
mathematical sentence that is known to be
either true or false.
Open sentence example
• 2xy < 3y
• 18w > 16.5
• 3(m + n) = 100
• 8ab – c = 1
• x+y=5
Closed sentence example
• 2(x + y) = 2x + 2y
• 18(2) > 16.5
• 8c – c = 7c
• 9 is an odd number
Convention in the mathematical
language
• Symbols are important in mathematical works. It
is therefore necessary understand how vital it is
to be precise about the symbols. Variable are
another form of mathematical symbols. To
understand the meaning of mathematical
symbols there are 2 things to consider.
Context
• Refers to particular topics being studied and it is
important to understand the context to understand
mathematical symbols.
Convention

• Is a technique used by mathematics,


engineers, scientist in which each particular
symbol has particular meaning.

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