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The Golden Curve
This resource, from the Maths Careers website, explores decimal numbers, predicting terms of a sequence and geometrical pictures and was produced in conjunction by More Maths Grads and the Queen Mary University of London.
The activity invites students find the maths hidden in everyday images, before introducing the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio from the terms of the sequence. Practical applications and examples of where else it appears are also discussed.
The resource package includes a PowerPoint presentation, teacher information and student worksheet. It is aimed at Key Stage 3 students, working in groups of around three to five, and should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
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