In Counting
Counting
various quantities is one of the activities that people engage in from young.
However, sometimes we wonder, just how big is one million? See how much space
one million saga seeds occupy and be awed by numbers that you can relate to in
your daily lives like the number of heartbeats in a typical lifetime. Sometimes, numbers can be used to fool people by well-known mathematical tricks.
In Nature
1,1,
2, 3, 5, 8, 13... This is the Fibonacci Sequence, where each number is derived
from adding the previous two numbers. This sequence of numbers can be found in
many natural patterns like in pineapples, sunflowers, nautilus and pine cones.
Our eyes are usually drawn
to objects that are symmetrical. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is often
used as a representation of symmetry in the human body. The Soothing Symmetries
exhibit anchors this section and explains what symmetry means to science and in
mathematics, as well as in everyday life
In Shapes, Curves & Patterns
Circles, squares and triangles are just a few of the shapes that are
familiar to us through our daily lives. Discover the usefulness, beauty and
'cleanness' of the round shape, and learn more about the other shapes that can
be found around us.
In Games & Puzzles
Many, if not all puzzles and games require mathematical logic and
deduction. The fun and excitement of various popular games and puzzles, and the
exhilaration of solving them, to attract and engage the visitors to realise the
mathematics in fun and games.
In Time & The Heavens
Mathematics
was developed to understand the cycles of nature as observed in the seasons.
Ancient people understood the need to define time in relation to celestial
movements for agricultural, astronomical, astrological and navigational
reasons.
This section looks at the
mathematics of astronomy, its relationship to the inventions of various
cultural-historical calendars, and the division of time into units of hours,
minutes and seconds.
In Real Applications
Mathematic is used in our everyday lives; from figuring out the amount
needed to buy your lunch to calculating the bank’s interest.For example,
internet banking is getting more and more common these days, and we depend on
cryptology – the study of protecting information using codes –to keep our transaction safe.
Awesome, Fearsome Calculus
Calculus is the study of change and it is one of the most important
fields in mathematics. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are usually credited
with the invention of calculus. Newton used calculus in his laws of motion and
gravitational attraction.