Visitors also explore natural spirals and ratios with a nautilus puzzle. Students use mathematics in other curriculum areas. Students use mathematics in their daily lives. Students describe, extend, analyze, and create a wide variety of patterns.
Students recognize, describe, extend and create a wide variety of patterns.
Students learn that similar patterns may show up in many places in nature and in the things people make. In three of the following four activities students will explore curving patterns. In the second activity students will use addition to write the Fibonacci series that describes generations of honeybees. Each activity stands alone or can be done in sequence with the others. In the first activity, students draw a simple spiraling pattern on paper.