A. Short-response/Essay writing: 1) What new ideas about mathematics did you learn? 2) What is it about mathematics that might have changed your thoughts about it? 3) What is most useful about mathematics for humankind? B. Writea 2- to 3-page synthesis focusing on one of the following aspects of mathematics: 1) Mathematics helps organize patterns and regularities in the world. 2) Mathematics helps predict the behavior of nature and phenomena in the world. 3) Mathematics helps control nature and occurrences in the world for our own ends