Crayola also has a lesson on creating Fibonacci Flowers. As an art project, we made springy spiral snakes. We traced the spiral of a pinecone with glitter glue and counted the petals on flowers.
Then we examined different objects from nature including cauliflower and pineapples. We also read Swirl By Swirl: Spirals in Nature. The book Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature has gorgeous color photographs that clearly show this. This book was named a Mathical Honor Book in 2015.Īfter learning what the sequence is, students can see how it appears in nature. It offered a clear explanation of the sequence and many colorful visual representations. The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett is another option.īlockhead: The Life of Fibonacci is fictionalized history (historians know very little about Fibonacci’s life) but my students loved it. It’s a fun story with great illustrations. Fibonacci was investigating how fast rabbits could breed under ideal circumstances. The book Rabbits Rabbits Everywhere by Ann McCallum presents this problem in a child appropriate way. However, the sequence was already known to Indian mathematicians. This introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence is named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, who explained the sequence in his book Liber Abaci in 1202. As Mensa For Kids puts it, “the prevalence of their appearance in nature and the ease of understanding them makes them an excellent principle for elementary age children to study.” One of my elementary students wrote this
While gifted and talented students can dive into this topic deeply, all students can understand it. If you are looking for a way for students to understand the importance of number sequences and patterning in the real world, the Fibonacci sequence is a natural way to accomplish this.
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