Did you know rabbits can help us understand math?
Fibonacci sequence
Did you know rabbits can help us understand math?
Imagine you're planning a rabbit farm and need to predict how many rabbits you'll have over time. You want to know how quickly your rabbit population will grow.
Picture your rabbit population growing in pairs each month. If you start with one pair, after one month you'll have two pairs, then four pairs, and so on. This pattern of growth is predictable and can be described by a special sequence where each number is the sum of the two before it.
Example
Starting with one pair (1), after one month you have 1 + 1 = 2 pairs, then 1 + 2 = 3 pairs, then 2 + 3 = 5 pairs...
Remember this
The Fibonacci sequence helps predict rabbit population growth by adding the previous two months' populations together.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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