Happy Fibonacci Day!
11/23 is Fibonacci Day! A great day to celebrate the Fibonacci sequence and spiral. Pull out your cornucopia and get it ready for Thanksgiving.
My pick for this week is:
Title: Wild Fibonacci: Nature's Secret Code Revealed
Author: Joy N. Hulme
Illustrator: Carol Schwartz
Publisher: Tricycle Press, 2005
For ages 6 and up
For ages 6 and up
Wild Fibonacci opens with front matter explaining the Fibonacci sequence and the spiral. It also offers ways to discover the sequence through exploration in nature.
Themes: Fibonacci, Mathematics, poetry, Nature, STEM
Themes: Fibonacci, Mathematics, poetry, Nature, STEM
Opening Page:
In the Fibonacci sequence
each new number comes
from adding up the two before
and figuring the sum.
This number set is used to plot
a graceful curving line
that's often found in nature
as part of its design.
The book continues showing the sequence through counting wild animals and each animal depicted shows the curve of the spiral on a part of the animal's body.
Why I like this book:
The sequence and the spiral are fascinating and appear in so many places. Introducing children to this concept will open the door to them seeing the word in new and exciting ways.
This book mainly focuses on the Fibonacci sequence, but uses animals and obvious body parts that fit the curve of the Fibonacci spiral.
The art work is engaging and realistic.
This book mainly focuses on the Fibonacci sequence, but uses animals and obvious body parts that fit the curve of the Fibonacci spiral.
The art work is engaging and realistic.
Activities and Resources:
Learn more about Leonardo Fibonacci.
- Lean about Fibonacci's hypothetical rabbit question and see how this sequence became popularized.
- Take a walk and search for objects, and animals that have spiral features.
- Start a journal of your discoveries adding drawings and/text to help you understand what you have found.
- Use the spiral as a compositional style.
- Learn more to understand more.
- Write a Fibonacci Poem
Here's one I wrote:
Nautilus Shell
Once
live.
Chambered
Nautilus
thread-like siphuncle (sigh-funk-el)
jet propulsing, moving backward
through the ocean. Rising, lowering, traveling the sea.
Hungry octopus spies a meal.
Soft delicious treat.
Empty shell
rides waves
to
shore.
Sarah Tobias (C) 2019
Definition of siphuncle.
Parden me while I expose my love of math. I have always been smitten by Fibonacci and how this sequence plays out in nature, design, and what humans see as "in proportion" and "beautiful. Will be adding this to my TBR pile for sure. Thanks for the rec!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you love math too. I struggle with it, but love to see the beauty of math in nature.
DeleteI am fascinated to see how the animals on the cover actually relate to the Fibonacci sequence and spiral. I haven't seen this book and I hope my library has it.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine some kids going wild over this.
ReplyDeleteI think my great grandson would like this. He's almost six and wildly curious about math, science. I love how the Fibonacci code is connected to nature's code -- all new to me.
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