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Calculator Tricks: The Golden Prediction
Excite the class with a mathematical trick, a calculator, and a good number sense. They use the directions provided on each slide to make a list of numbers, use their calculator to divide, and find the golden mean. A little history on...
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How Does Your Population Grown?
Do you know how the population has grown of your community? Can you predict the population over the next half century? Can we find an algebraic model that matches our data? These along with many more questions can be researched by...
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Learning about Fibonacci
In this learning about Fibonacci worksheet, students read about Leonardo Fibonacci and his contribution to mathematics, then study the pattern of Fibonacci numbers, in math and in nature.
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Difference of Equations
In this difference of equations instructional activity, students solve and complete 49 various types of problems. First, they obtain the solution of any linear homogeneous second order difference equation. Then, students apply the method...
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Math Club Warm Up #10b
For this math club warm up #10b worksheet, 5th graders compute the answers for 3 problems involving multiplication and the Fibonacci numbers, without using a calculator; there are 4 sheets on a page.
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Worksheet 1: Fibonacci Numbers
In this Fibonacci worksheet, students prove by induction the Fibonacci numbers are recursive. They find a recursive definition for a given set of numbers. This two-page worksheet contains five multi-step problems that involve proofs.
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Fibonacci Numbers
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...
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Finding Fibonacci
Students study and apply the Fibonacci numbers and how they occur in nature. Students solve problems using the Fibonacci numbers.
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Easy Worksheet: Special Numbers
In this special numbers worksheet, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students find various terms in the Fibonacci sequence, triangular number sequence, and the natural numbers in Pascal's Triangle.