Note to teachers

•I’m a member of MAA, and “Found Math” pictures is one of their regular features. Here are a few.

•And this summer, there was an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about some Fibonacci artistic architecture near Green River.

•Fibonacci is not a shortened form of the Italian name that is actually spelled:

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FOUND MATH: John A. Adam (Old Dominion University) is an avid nature photographer and author of A Mathematical Nature Walk. He recently captured the Fibonacci sequence in a daisy. See more of his photos here.

FOUND MATH: Fibonacci spirals on the ceiling of the Grand Ballroom at the Omni William Penn Hotel (by Laura McHugh).

FOUND MATH: The center of a sunflower is an excellent demonstration of the Fibonacci sequence. Photo by William Turner.

FOUND MATH: Although many flowers have three, five, or eight petals (Fibonacci numbers), some have six petals (not a Fibonacci number). Photo by Julian Fleron, Westfield State College.

FOUND MATH: A Fibonacci spiral window at The Women's College of the University of Denver. Photo by Photo by Japheth Wood (Bard College)