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Fascinating Fibonaccis (Dale Seymour Publications)

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As an undergrad. math major student, I've encountered Fibonacci numbers so many times all over text books... However, this book gives me a lot more insights of this amazing numbers interestingly. This book's especially good at exploring fibonacci numbers in nature as well as its mathematical aspects.

This book is a good starter. It provides a good introduction on what is a Fibonacci Series, the analysis of such and where Fibanacci numbers occur in nature and our lives. It even has a decient introduction on Lucas Numbers. However, it is just that, a good starter which I would whole heartedly recommend for a high school student that is just about to discover how wonderful math subjects can be. To get a more in depth presentation, one will have to refer to a receintly published paper on the subject or refer to a graduate text.

A good intro book on Fibinocci numbers, but not what I was looking for. This book is geared toward middle school students.

The Fibonacci numbers are very natural numbers in the sense that they appear everywhere in nature, from the leave structure of plants to the growth patterns of many animals, including humans. This book is a gentle introduction to the set of Fibonacci numbers, a history of Fibonacci the man and many of the natural phenomena that are described by the numbers. It is written at the level of the late elementary to early middle school child, so it would make an excellent supplement for math courses at that level.

The book has a very nice overview of Fibonnaci in daily life, written for children age 10 - up.