Fibonacci V Lucas: spot your sunflower’s spiral

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/03/05/3957310.htm

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Do you have Fibonacci or Lucas-patterned sunflowers in your garden?

This article discusses the Fibonacci series in nature and how some sunflowers follow the Lucas series. Also discusses the contributions of Turing.

9 March 2014 Edit: 18 June 2016

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Cross-KLA, Science, Number, Special Numbers, Fibonacci Numbers, Patterns and Algebra, Numeric and geometric patterns
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Number and Algebra, Patterns and algebra, ACMNA107 Year 5 Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers re

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