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All About Patterns
Mathematics has been called 'science of patterns'. Recognizing and describing patterns and using patterns are important mathematical skills.

A Bee Tree
Although a female honeybee has two parents, a male honeybee's ancestors reveals an interesting pattern of numbers.

1 bee

1 parent

2 grandparent

3 great-grandparent

5 greatt-great-grandparent

8 great-graet-great-grandparent

The numbers of bees in the generation: 1,1,2,3,5,8.......form a famous list of numbers knowns as the Fibonacci sequence. This number sequence has fascinated peoples for centuries because it appears so often in nature.

You can find numbers from the Fibonacci sequence in the patterns of leaves on plants, in the arrangement of scales pineapples and in the spirals of nautilus shells

The surface of a honeycomb is made up of a pattern of hexagons that fit together with no overlaps

About Fibonacci
Leonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa, Italy, around 1175. His father was Guilielmo Bonacci, a secretary of the Republic of Pisa.His father was also a customs officer for the North African city of Bugia. Some time after 1192. Bonacci brought his son with him to Bugia.Guilielmo wanted for Leonardo to become a merchant and so arranged for his instruction in calculational techniques, escpecially those involving the Hindu - Arabic numerals which had not yet been introduced into Europe.Since Fibonacci was the son of a merchant, he was able go travel freely all over the Byzantine Empire. Merchants at the time were immuned, so they were allowed to move about freely. This allowed him to visit many of the area's centers of trade. While he was there, he was able to learn both the mathematics of the scholars and the calculating schemes in popular use, at the time.