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Author Topic: Fibonacci Webquest  (Read 5109 times)

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Fibonacci Webquest
« on: January 20, 2010, 09:05:41 PM »
Ok so here's the first draft of the webquest that I mentioned before.  It will (should) guide the student through a lesson on the Fibonacci Sequence.

If anyone wants to check it out and let me know what you think, that would be great.

Download powerpoint here
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2010, 12:59:47 PM »
Looks great!  The only thing I would have added is bust to waist or hips to waist.  But that might get the censors after you.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2010, 01:32:26 PM »
One of the most fascinating things that I ever learned about the golden ratio is that we use it to determine who we find attractive.

http://scienceray.com/mathematics/geometry/the-golden-ratio-and-the-fibonacci-sequence/

I wish I had teachers like you when I was horny young.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2010, 02:54:40 PM »
Quote from: BizB on January 21, 2010, 01:32:26 PM

I wish I had teachers like you when I was horny young.

Concur.  In fact at my HS we didn't have any attractive female teachers.  Van Halen's Hot For Teacher came out during my Jr. year I think too.  I just couldn't relate.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 05:49:48 AM »
Not sure if I'm still in time for this to be worth anything, but I was curious as to how this was going to be presented.

If it's intended for a projector I'm not sure how readable that font would be; perhaps you should use a slightly thinner typeface. Either that, or try darkening the background a tad, particularly in the bottom left area. The lighter spot could make it difficult to read text around there.

As for content; its presence in the natural world as applied to humans, as suggested by pbsaurus, would make it seem a bit more relevant to the students; though I agree that you could just apply it to the ratio of one's face as mentioned by BizB, to avoid offense.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2010, 03:22:55 PM »
It's not going to be projected.  It will be on each individual student's computer screen.  They can do it at home or in the computer lab.

I added the physical attraction bit in my final presentation.  Thanks for the input all!
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2010, 09:16:16 AM »
My daughter, who is in 7th grade (I know, rite?), came home yesterday and told me about a Fibonacci thing that I didn't know.

How she demonstrated this was neat, too.  She first asked if I was familiar with Fibonacci.  I said that I was and she was instantly deflated - assuming that I already knew the "trick" she was about to demonstrate.  I insisted that she go on with what she wanted to show me and she told me to pick any number between zero and 15.  Then, she had me pick another.

We then worked together to create the Fibonacci sequence from those 2 numbers.  Once we had them all listed, she said, "OK. I bet I can add all of these together faster than you can." And the challenge was on.

3, 15, 18, 33, 51, 84, 135, 219, 354, 573.

She was done in like 3 seconds.  And, she was spot on. 1485.

Question: How did she do that?
Answer: (highlight) The sum of any ten numbers in the sequence is equal to eleven times the seventh number in the series.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2010, 09:36:17 AM »
Wow!  That is cool!  I didn't know that.  I'm gonna put it in there.

I'm glad they're teaching your daughter (7th grade?  Can't believe it!) about this.  No kid in Virginia is learning it.  No time, gotta cram all the stuff that's on the SOL in there.  Makes math no fun at all.  (Some may argue that it's the math that makes math no fun at all, but I'm not buying it.)


I got an 86 on my final project, by the way.  I'm kinda pissed because I got a "Very well done!" on the rough draft.  I thought the rough draft was to get feedback on what can be improved upon.  Since there was no feedback, I thought it was actually very well done.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2010, 08:32:39 PM »
I didn't know that one either.  Way to go BBCK :detta:
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2010, 10:35:34 PM »
Quote from: Detta on February 17, 2010, 09:36:17 AM
(Some may argue that it's the math that makes math no fun at all, but I'm not buying it.)

I dunno, makes a lot of sense to me.
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Re: Fibonacci Webquest
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2010, 11:33:02 AM »
Can you make it clear to your students that not all, or even most spirals in nature are not golden spirals? Your presentation doesn't indicate that they are but it seems to be something people want to believe.

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