Numbers in Nature
What do all flower petals have in common?
Their number of petals is usually a number in the Fibonacci sequence.
What is Phi also known as?
The Golden Ratio
When is Fibonacci Day?
November 23rd
What did Fibonacci do?
He made a pattern
What else did Fibonacci go by?
Leonardo of Pisa
Name 3 things from nature where the Fibonacci sequence occurs
Hurricanes, Shells, Flowers, Petals, Plants, Seeds, Pinecones, Fruits/Veggies, etc.
What type of decimal number is phi?
Irrational
Name 5 numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.
0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc.
Where was Fibonacci born?
Pisa, Italy
What was Fibonacci's real name?
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo
Why is finding a 4 leaf clover so rare?
Because 4 is not a Fibonacci number
What are the first 4 digits of phi?
1.618
What was the pattern inspired by?
Rabbit Breeding
What is the name of the book that Fibonacci wrote?
Book of Squares
Fibonacci is an abbreviation for what phrase?
Filius Bonacci
The Fibonacci Pattern follows the ancestry of what animal?
The Drone Bee
What do you do to two consecutive Fibonacci numbers to arrive at 1.618?
Divide them
Where did Fibonacci learn the Hindu-Arabian Numeral System?
Bugia
When was Fibonacci born?
1170 - 1175
What does the word Bigollo mean?
Traveller
Solve this problem:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/nature-golden-ratio-fibonacci.html
0.618/1.618
Draw one of symbols for PHI
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Where does the spiral come from?
What did Fibonacci introduce to Europe?
The Hindu-Arabian Numeral System
What does the word Bonacci mean?
Son of Good Fortune