Fibonacci Sequence: Pine Cones

The scales on the pinecone up top have been numbered according to their
growth. to understand the relationship between the Fibonacci spirals at the stem end of a
pinecone and the reason the Fibonacci numbers (labeled in blue and green) gradually line up.
The key idea is that scales with numbers that differ by a Fibonacci number typically have close
spacing between them. For instance, it is typically simple to identify the five spirals of numbers
with the last digits 0 and 5, 1 and 6, 2 and 7, 3 and 8, and 4 and 9, which correspond to Fibonacci
variations of 5, on a pinecone of this size. Although I have other pinecones, including this one,
on which I've marked the outside of the Fibonacci scales up to 144, the specimens in this batch
were the first pinecones I was able to number up to 89. You can see the markings on scales 89
(blue) and 144 in the third image, which depicts the base of the open pinecone (green). Because
of the pinecone's curved spine, the Fibonacci scale alignment is slightly off towards the base, as
can be seen in the lopsided base and in the image of its closed cousin, fourth in the array below.
If not, the scale 89 value would fall between 34 and 55.
As an illustration of the Fibonacci proximity described above, notice that if you take the
numbers on any two scales that are adjacent in any direction on the pinecone, their difference is
always a Fibonacci number. For instance, the scales adjacent to 50 in the first photo (clockwise
from the top of the pinecone) are:

16 = 50 - 34, 37 = 50 - 13, 58 = 50 + 8,  71 = 50 + 21,

84 = 50 + 34,  63 = 50 + 13,  42 = 50 - 8, 29 = 50 - 21.
 Performance Task #2
in Math 10

Fibonacci Sequence
(Pine Cones)

Submitted by:
Friel G. Ragil
10- Ramon Obusan
Submitted to:
Mr. Joel Macasusi
Math Teacher