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 Video 2A     [|…]Good 5pts ===** Video 2: "The Golden Mean" (week 8) **===  **Pre-listening:**  a. What do you know about the golden mean?

Is a measure which represented the perfection and the beauty in the ancient Greece.

 b. What's the connection between the golden mean and mathematics?

The golden mean is related with numerical sequences and geometric shapes

c. Mention five words you think you will listen to in the video. Sequences, geometry, perfection, Greece, spirals  Image taken from: []
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 **II. While viewing and after viewing**  Please click on the following link watch the video and then answer the following questions.  []  1. What's the process to construct the Fibonacci numbers?

Each number in the succession is constructed from the sum of the two previous. The first two numbers are 0 and 1

 2. Why are many things designed using the Fibonacci rectangle and spiral?

Because it represent the artistic perfection and in nature is very common that spiral

 3. Mention some examples of the Fibonacci spiral in the world around us and inside us.

Snails, hurricanes , flowers , galaxies , whirlpools,plants.

4. In your opinion what are the applications of the Fibonacci theories? The Fibonacci theories are important to study geometric shapes in the nature because they gives us a model to follow which represents very good the reality