West Visayas State University

College of Arts and Sciences

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
La Paz, Iloilo City Rosemarie M. Java
Email add: rosemarie.java@wvsu.edu.ph
COURSE OUTLINE Consultation: 10:00 – 11:00AM (Monday – Friday)
MATH 101 – MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
1st Sem. 2019 – 2020
University
Vision: WVSU as the center for educational excellence in the Visayas and the hub for Human Resource Development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mission: WVSU is committed to provide holistic education geared towards sustainable growth and development.
Core Values: Scholarship Harmony Innovation Nurturance Excellence Service
Institutional Outcomes:
taga – WEST …
 is an effective and responsible communicator  is creative and critical thinker
 has uncompromising personal and professional ethical standards  is technologically skilled
 is socially responsible and has strong national identity  is globally employable
 is self-directed, competent, and accountable professionals  has teaming and collaborative skills
 can utilize lifelong learning skills for personal development and excellence in professional practice.
Course Description: CMO No. 20, Series 2013
This course deals with nature of mathematics, appreciation of its practical, intellectual, aesthetic dimensions and application 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 the environment) 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 bunch of formulas but as a source of aesthetics in patterns of nature, for example, and a rich language in itself (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 actually doing mathematics in a broad range of exercises that
bring out the various dimensions of mathematics as a way of knowing, and test the students’ understanding and capacity.
Unit Credit: 3 units lecture Pre-requisite: None
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the students must have:
1. discussed and argued about the nature of mathematics, what it is now, how it is expressed, represented, and used;
2. used different types of reasoning to justify statements and arguments made about mathematics and mathematical concepts;
3. discussed the language and symbols of mathematics;
4. used a variety of statistical tools to process and manage numerical data;
5. used mathematics in other areas such as finance and business, codes and coding schemes, networks, voting, health and medicine, environment, arts
and design, and recreation; and
6. appreciated the nature of mathematics and affirmed honesty and integrity in its application to various human endeavors.

COURSE CONTENT
Required Topics Additional Topics
Unit 0. ORIENTATION Unit V. APPORTIONMENT AND VOTING
1. Vision, Mission, Core Values, and Outcomes 1. Introduction to Apportionment
2. Overview of the Course 2. Introduction to Voting
3. Course Requirements 3. Weighted Voting Systems
Unit I. MATHEMATICS IN OUR WORLD Unit VI. GEOMETRIC DESIGN
1. Patterns and Numbers in Nature and the World 1. Recognizing and Analyzing Geometric Shapes
2. Getting to Know Mathematics 2. Transformations
3. Importance of Mathematics 3. Patterns and Diagrams
4. Various Application of Mathematics 4. Design, Arts, and Culture
Unit II. MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLS Unit VII. THE MATHEMATICS OF GRAPHS
1. Importance of Language 1. Basic Concepts of Graphs
2. The Mathematical Language 2. Path and Circuit
3. Translation of English expressions and sentences 3. Weighted graphs
using Mathematical symbols 4. Planarity and Euler’s Formula
4. Elementary logic 5. Graph Coloring
5. Equivalent Statements and Tautologies Unit VIII. CODES
Unit III. PROBLEM SOLVING AND REASONING 1. Binary Codes
1. Mathematical Reasoning 2. Integers in Computers
2. Problem Solving 3. Logic and Computer Addition
Unit IV. DATA MANAGEMENT 4. Text Data
1. Review: Descriptive Statistics (Measures of Central 5. Errors and Error Correction
Tendency, Location and Dispersion), and Inferential 6. Error Detecting Code
Statistics (Normal Distribution and Hypothesis Testing) Unit IX. MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS
2. Chi – square, Correlation, and Regression 1. Modular Arithmetic
2. Application of Modular Arithmetic
3. Introduction to Group Theory

Criteria for Grading Weight Course Requirements: Every student must have
Quizzes, Problem Sets, and Long Test/Unit Test 40% 1. submitted problem sets and assignments;
Supplementary Outputs and Participations 20% 2. passed the quizzes, long test, and major examinations; and
Major Examinations 40% 3. complied with the project requirements such as poster, vignette,
TOTAL 100% synthesis, research proposal, and others.

References:
Aufmann, R., et al. (2017) Mathematics in the Modern World. Philippine ed. Rex Book Store (Cengage)
Aufmann, R., et al. (2013) Mathematical Excursions. 3rd ed.. Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning.
Bluman, A. G. (2013) Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version. 6th ed. New York, NY: MCGraw Hill
Discrete Mathematics and Its Application (2012) [Philippines]:McGrawHill
Larsen, Richard J., Marx, Morris L. (2012) An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications. 5 th ed. Boston
Long, C. T., De Temple, D.W., Millman, R. S. (2012) Mathematical Reasoning for Elementary Teachers. 6th ed. Boston: Addison Wesley
Nocon, R., & Nocon, E. (2018) Essential Mathematics for the Modern World. C & E Publishing, Inc.
Tannenbaum, P. (2007) Excursions in Modern Mathematics. 6th ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
Walpole, R., Myers, R., Myers, S., & Ye, R. (2012) Probability and statistics for engineers and scientists. 9 th ed. Pearson Education Inc.
WVSU (2014) University Student Handbook.

Prepared by Faculty Members of the Mathematics Department, College of Arts and Sciences, West Visayas State University