Day 05 in Mat115

Today:

• Note: project assignments and deadlines have been added to the assignments page.

• Collect problems 1.4.

• Questions/Comments on old stuff?
  • Last time: Estimation
    • Pidgeonhole principle
    • Effective Exaggeration
    • Exercises in Estimation
  • Estimates of cars backed up
  • Estimates of dice in the room
  • Temporal Twins -- Michelle has provided a great new World Population clock. Thanks Michelle! It's got lots of other great stuff on it.

• Section 2.2: Fibonacci Numbers, and Numerical Patterns in Nature:
  • 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, -- what's next?

  • II.6: bunnies and Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

    How many bunny pairs at the end of a year?

  • Fibonacci Numbers and Nature: What kind of food, plants, and/or other Fibonacci items do we have today?
    • dandelions (Here's a scanned dandelion)
    • Spirals in daisies:
      • 21 spirals
      • 34 spirals
      • together
    • artichokes?
    • pineapples?
    • pine cones?
    • Bring them up, and put a post-it with your name on it next to your item.

  • Fibonacci number decomposition and Fibonacci Nim

  • Fibonacci Nim explorations