There is a lot of mad Maths to be found now
it's Summer outside and the International
Year of Light! We thought it would be fun to
take Sunlight and Sunflowers as our topics.
iMATHS
Here is a start, but where will it take you
Fusers? We would love you to email in and
tell us!
'G o l d e n R a
t i o' S u n f l o w
e rs!
Have you n
oticed the
swirl of a p
incredible
inecone or
spiral patt
the
ern of see
Sunflower?
ds growing
It's almost
on a
like an opti
cal illusion
.
Amazingly
they grow
following th
mathemati
e precise
cal Golden
Ratio of 1ยท6
new seed
18034, wit
cell turning
h e a ch
an exact a
mount.
Somehow
Sunflowers
and lots of
know all a
other plan
bout the fa
ts
scinating F
sequence
ibonacci N
(0, 1, 1, 2, 3
um b e r
, 5, 8, 13...)
-Do you..?
!
On the Ma
ths Activit
y Page 11 w
patterns e
e search o
very where
ut
, from a be
to vegetab
etle's Sym
le Fractals
metr y
!
S
L I G H T FAC T
N
S P E E DY S U
amazing
s Earth in an
e sun reache
Light from th
0 s e co n d s !
een a
8 m i