Session 3: Explore

One Teacher’s Fibonacci Lesson

Explore this slideshow to see how one teacher used an inquiry-based approach to teach a lesson on Fibonacci numbers. If you aren’t familiar with the Fibonacci numbers, they are a sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on) that follow a pattern where the next number in the sequence is the sum of the two preceding numbers. This sequence appears in 90% of the natural world and tends to be a very engaging concept for students to explore.

As you explore, notice what makes this an inquiry-based lesson.