Fibonacci Numbers and all that

This week we have been looking at number patterns in class and finished off the week drawing flowers based on the Fibonacci sequence. Here is the relevant video which can also be found on Vi Hart's excellent blog.

We also had a peek at fractals via Sierpinski's Triangle and Pascal's Triangle.

This also linked neatly into the Ulam Spiral and Prime numbers.

Hopefully, all this activity helped demonstrate the overall inter-connectedness of mathematics and how it can be utilised in both explaining and describing the world we live in. An excellent source of further information can be found on the web pages of Dr. Ron Knott at the University of Surrey.

Daisies with 13, 21, 34, 55 or 89 petals are quite common.
Here we have a Shasta daisy with 21 petals.