Fibonacci number Lesson Plans

Learners observe patterns in nature that illustrate Fibonacci's number sequence.  In this Fibonacci number sequence lesson, students use candy to represent bears and how they reproduce. Learners create a pattern of reproduction and continue the pattern. Students observe flowers  and surfaces of a banana.

Students calculate the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. Through the use of Fibonacci numbers in flowers, leaves, fruits, vegetables, pine cones, and other forms of nature; students explore how Fibonacci numbers occur in nature. Then they construct the Fibonacci sequence from Pascal's Triangle.

Students discuss the Fibonacci sequence and how it was discovered by trying to determine the sequence on their own based on the same assumptions Leonardo Fibonacci used. Working as a class they discuss the rule that is being follow to get from one number to the next before dividing into groups to look for Fibonacci numbers in pictures of nature.

Research patterns in nature which illustrate biological and mathematical concepts. Your class will discover and explore aspects of fractals, Fibonaccis numbers, whale and butterfly migration patterns, whale identification, flower patterns, biorhythms and fingerprints.

Tenth graders investigate the Golden Ratio.  In this geometry lesson, 10th graders explore the Fibonacci sequence in the context of The Fibonacci Rabbit problem.  Students examine how the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci number create the golden Ratio and identify real-life example s of the Golden ratio. 

Students draw a model of the bunny problem which generates the Fibonacci Sequence, spirals generated from golden rectangles and golden triangles; identify the golden ratio in the human body, and find the Fibonacci numbers in nature.

Students identify and investigate Fibonacci numbers and the ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers. They take measurements of two different heights and investigate the relationship of these two heights (a person's height and the height of that person's navel). Finally, students examine a graph (scatterplot) of these two measurements.

Sixth graders identify a pattern in the Fibonacci sequence. In this math lesson, 6th graders explain how to attain a number that is not a Fibonacci number. They cite some examples in nature that follows this pattern.

Fifth graders have the opportunity to gather information themselves on Fibonacci and on the occurrence of Fibonacci numbers in nature. They divide up into groups of 2 to 4 to research.

Students explore the mathematician Fibonacci and his sequence of numbers. This special sequence of numbers are found in vegetables, fruits, plants, pine cones, pine needles, pineapples, Pascal's tri-angle, and much more.