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		Quilting Across the Curriculum In conjunction with the Home Economics, Art, English, Social Studies, Business and Science departments, the Math Department participates in the annual quilt project. Each student selected a classic quilt pattern. A blueprint of the quilt block was created using the principles of similarity: corresponding angles congruent and corresponding sides proportional. Students then constructed a 20 cm square block and with symmetry in mind, created this lovely quilt

Fibonacci Quilts Leonardo da Pisa (1175-1250) developed a sequence of numbers: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21… that described the hypothetical birth pattern of rabbits. This sequence of numbers has become known as the Fibonacci Sequence (son of Bonacci) The pattern for the sequence is additive, each successive term is the sum of the two previous terms. In the centuries since Fibonacci generated the sequence, scientist, mathematicians and economists have found many other connections to this pattern. We have divided a grid into four quadrants. Each quadrant is divided into columns that have widths equal to the Fibonacci numbers.

Families are like quilts lives pieced together stitched with smiles and tears colored with memories bound by love.