MATHEMATICS IN

THE MODERN WORLD

 Name: Leonardo Bonacci
Popularly known as
FIBONACCI
Also known as . . .
Leonardo of Pisa
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo
Leonardo Fibonacci

Born: 1170, Pisa, Italy Most talented

Died: 1250, Pisa, Italy mathematician of
the middle ages
In 1202, Fibonacci wrote a very
famous book “Liber abaci”
Fibonacci Sequence History
 Medieval mathematician and businessman
Fibonacci (Leonardo Pisano) posed the following
problem:
 A young pair of rabbits (one of each sex) is
placed on an island. A pair of rabbits does not
breed until they are 2 months old. After they
are 2 months old, each pair of rabbits produces
another pair each month. Find a recurrence
relation for the number of pairs of rabbits on
the island after n months, assuming that no
rabbits ever die.
 This is an example of a recursive sequence,
obeying the simple rule that to calculate the
next term one simply sums the preceding
two:
a1 = 1
a2 = 1
an = an-1 + an-2
 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, ...
 The Fibonacci numbers occur in the sums
of "shallow" diagonals in Pascal's triangle
 Example: Fibonacci sequence application
 The most common such problem is that
of counting the number of compositions
of 1s or 2s that sum to a given total n:
there are Fn+1 ways to do this.
 Determine the number of compositions
of 1s and 2s that sum up to 5.
 Ans. F6 = 8 compositions
 Example: Fibonacci sequence application
 The Fibonacci numbers can be found among
the set of binary strings
 The number of binary strings of length n
without consecutive 1s is the Fibonacci number
Fn+2.
 Given binary strings of length 4, determine
the number of binary strings without
consecutive 1s.
 Ans. 8 (they are 0000, 0001, 0010, 0100, 0101,
1000, 1001 and 1010)
 Example: Fibonacci sequence geometrically
Golden Rectangle
1 : φ (1.61803)
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The Fibonacci sequence in plants

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per generation.
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An apple has 5 sections

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1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89,

144, . . .
Choose any four consecutive
Fibonacci numbers. Add the first and
last, and divide by two. What do you
notice? Can you explain it?
Group
Activity

Create and perform a song, poem or play

answering the following questions.

What is mathematics?
Where is mathematics?
What is mathematics for?
What is mathematics about?
How is mathematics done?
Who uses mathematics?
Who uses mathematics?
Why is mathematics important to know?
Workshop
Work with a partner and create constructively
aligned lesson activities and assessment
methods with the following lessons:
• Patterns and numbers in nature
• The Fibonacci sequence

1. What are the three things that you expect

your students to be able to do at the end of
the lesson? (Intended Learning Outcomes)
2. How do you assess your students on doing
these things? (Assessment Tasks)
3. How do you teach your students to do these
things? (Teaching and Learning Activities)
 Assignment
Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation of at
most 8 slides discussing a topic covered in
Chapters 5 – 9 of Ian Stewart’s Nature’s
Numbers.

Print the slides on A4 paper, 4 slides to a

page. Be ready for a 10 – minute
presentation of your work.
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