Megan Douglas Lesson Title: All Aboard! Date: March 5, 2015 Essential Question: Does a pattern exist when finding the different combinations of cars used to create different train lengths using Cuisinaire Rods? If so, what is it and how do you find it? Lesson Rational: In this lesson, the students will use Cuisinaire Rods to create different combinations while having different “car lengths” (individual rods) add up to “trains” (combinations) which are equal to the length of a larger…
Does land have a memory of its own? The film Children of Nature suggests that memory is strongly connected to the land on which the memory was created. Therefore, a walk on the beach combined with the sounds of waves crashing on the shore, and the feeling of wind blowing through your hair may illicit similar or random experiences that occurred years before. In this sense, experiences bleed into the land, whereby creating a pool of memories connected to a seemingly arbitrary symbol of its…
Graphic Designer Research Paper Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass was a popular graphic designer with a career that spanned over 40 years. Bass started out as a graphic designer in 1938 with a job at Warner Brothers. After six years, Bass left to study at the Art Students League in New York. He attended Brooklyn College and made his money working as a freelance designer. After finishing school Bass took his talents to Los Angeles to start his own design studio called Saul Bass and…
the ratios of successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci ratio is very close to the Golden ratio. The mathematical ideas the Fibonacci Sequence leads to, the Golden Ratio, and the Golden Spirals. As the number increases, the ratio becomes closer to 1.618. For instance, the ratio of 3 to 5 is 1.666. But the ratio of 13 to 21 is 1.625. As the numbers increase, the ratio of 144 to 233 is 1.618. These numbers are all successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence. The Golden Ratio is…
were usurers made to seek forgiveness? Fibonacci had other interests that rate examples in his book. For example, if a man has one denaro and he expects it to double every five years, how many would he have After one hundred years? Which demonstration did Fibonacci pose? After Fibonacci, other people developed tables to help with calculations, but again failed to specifically Say they were using compound interest. How was compound interest explained by Fibonacci? Commercial developments…
most visually pleasing form and appears in masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa and in other art and architecture for centuries. Around 1200 AD, mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the unique properties of the Fibonacci sequence. This sequence ties directly into the Golden ratio because if you take any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, their ratio is very close to the Golden ratio. As the numbers increase, the closer the get to the golden ratio. As the numbers decrease, the farther the…
When Michael Shermer states that we are pattern-seeking animals, he is trying to say that it is an inherent trait that all of us have and that we are conditioned to find patterns in everything whether they are real or not. There are multiple definitions of a pattern; for this essay the operational definitions of a pattern will be- A. a regular form of reoccurrence of an event and B. something that establishes a cause and effect relationship. Michael Shermer explains and re-states ‘Apophenia’ as…
further item may easily disprove the conclusion. If, for example, the number 1 (a non-prime) is also observed to be part of the set, one may recognize the pattern {1, 2, 3, 5} as part of the Fibonacci sequence, and might instead conclude that the larger set is, in fact, the set of all elements in the Fibonacci sequence. Of course, this also is a rash assumption to make, as there are an infinite number of sets containing these particular numbers. The larger set might be the…
table. All of the elements have their own specific anatomical number. In addition, the number can be used to present the connection between mathematics and nature. For example, according to the video The Great Math Mystery, Fibonacci sequences appear a lot in botany. Fibonacci number can be the number of flower petals or two sets of spirals while looking at a cone or a seed of tree.…
Nearly everyone at some point in their life has questioned whether or not there is a God, and there are many arguments as to why or why not God is real, but through observation of the universe one can conclude that due to the patterns that arise and complexity of it all that God does exist. While God’s exact nature cannot be pinned down by these observations, one can get a rough understanding of Him and the level of power He has. In this day and age, having faith is simply not good enough for…