Math+AOK

Math as an Area of Knowing

 * With the Moon as our starting point to link the Ways of Knowing (WOK's - Think PERL) and the Areas of Knowing (AOK's - Think IB Hexogram - Math / Natural Sciences / Human Sciences / Arts / History) we will a) make sense of some of the Math questions raised in our Moon Perception exercise and b) have fun interpreting some quotations about Math as an AOK.**
 * Copy the following onto your Math page and add your thinking:**

A. Record here 3 Math Questions raised in class that interest you. Then under each write your answer/s and reflect on your process for expanding your knowledge in that area. Q1. How many moons would fit inside the Earth? If we want to check it with the surface: The surface area of the Earth is 510,072,000 km2 The surface area of the Moon is 37,930,000 km2 So when we divided the two numbers that will give us 13.447moon

But if we want to check it with the volume that will be: The volume area of the Earth is 1.08321×1012 km3 The volume area of the Moon is 2.1958 × 1010 km3 So when we divided the two numbers that will give us 49.33 moons

All these measuring are approximately and according to Wikipedia Q2. What is the velocity of the moon? Approximately 1km/s Q3. What is the size of the moon compare to other moons? Mars is nearly 500 times smaller looking than the Moon! Although the Moon is actually about half the diameter of Mars, the Moon appears a lot bigger because the Moon is much closer to us than Mars

B. Read the following Math quotations (some you may have heard before) and below three of them, write your interpretation of what you believe the author is trying to say.

"The mark of a civilized man is the ability to look at a column of numbers and weep." Berterand Russell, 1872-1970 The writer tried (I think) to mean that the modern education dependance on math and when he said weep he doesn't mean crying he means as I understand it shout out, which mean that he understand what wrote in it because he/she live a life with mathematics resources (you can't live without math) "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Paul Erdos, 1913-96 TRUE, because I think most mathematician think of everything as math, and try to link thing to it. If you really like something and interest in you may think of it all the time even in your dream>>>when you sleeping They making life is math as I am always saying (Ask mrs. Harris) To speak freely, I am convinced that it (mathematics) is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other..." Rene Descaret, 1596-1650 Mathematics is a really powerful subject, because as you look around yourself you are going to see mathematics. In sciences, languages and religions.  Even if you Baduien you need math, don't you want to count your goat???? :)  In math class we did a presentation about math as a language, we found that math is a really universal language and exists all around the world.
 * "Mathematics is neither physical nor mental, it's social." Reuben Hersh, 1927-**
 * "The useful combinations (in mathematics) are precisely the most beautiful." Henri Poincare, 1854-1912**
 * "Mathematics is the abstract key with turns the lock of the physical universe." John Polkinghorne, 1930 -**
 * "Everything that can be counted does not count. Everything that counts cannot be counted." Albert Einstein, 1879-1955**
 * "Mathematics began when it was discovered that a barce of pheasants, and a couple of days have something in common: the number two." Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970**
 * "Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions", and if you got a different "impression", so what, cant' we all be brothers?| Jack Handy 1949-**

How did they discover the area, circumference and diameter? by using Geophysical techniques. How many craters are there in the moon? Approximately 300,000 craters (with diameters down to 1 km) are visible from ground based telescopes; high-definition photographs from lunar probes reveal millions of craters; extreme close-ups show countless microscopic craters. There are estimated to be roughly 300,000 craters wider than 1 km on the Moon's near side alone. Well, that no-one will ever know. But a good estimate would be around 5000-10,000! Does the distance between between the moon and the earth change over the time? It never changes because its orbit stays equilivant to the earth all the time. What is the diameter of the largest crater on the moon that can be seen on Earth by the naked eye? It cannot be seen with the naked eye.
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This is my math essay:

And this is the 2nd essay about math

** Can mathematics be characterized as a universal language? **  a) A statement of your thoughts in response to the question    b) Examples that back up your thinking c) Any other questions or ways of looking at the question that occur to you When we say universal we mean that most of the people around the world know what is the subject or the thing that we are talking about, even though if they do not know how to use it.   In the dictionary the definition is supporting my definition for the word universal: which is “ a person or things having universal effect, and done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases. “   There are many things that we can say that they are universal, but of course the level of universality is different from thing to another.   Here are some examples of things are universal:   - Music   Music is something we could say it is universal but if we talk about it in general, because where ever you go you will here sound that called MUSIC, but the tune and the melody are different from country to another. - Art As look around you will se an artist with his/her art in front of them, you will see them work as hard as they can so their paint become the best and the famous piece of art. But if we look deep enough inside the art work we will see different ideas and meanings, each artist has his own idea and he try to express it in his/her way, in a way that he/she can clearfy what does he/she means and may be if people look to it they will have idea that is way far from the artist idea. All that means even if the art in general is a universal but we can find a lot of different things around us. I think MATH is the universal language, which takes the highest level of universality, and the sciences may come after it and that is because it is related to the math in many ways. Math is the same ides around the world but using different language and that to translate the information to the country language where its people can understand it