Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci grew up in medieval Italy. He loved thinking about numbers so much that he didn’t always pay attention to other things happening around him. His classmates at school even called him “blockhead.” But as Leonardo grew, so did his love for math. He visited other countries and was inspired to see how numbers were used in each place. He then realized that there are patterns of numbers in nature, too! The pattern he discovered is now called the Fibonacci Sequence, and mathematicians and artists still use it today.