Why Do Patterns Pop Up Everywhere?

Patterns are like a game that numbers and shapes love to play. Imagine you're counting your cookies, if you have two cookies, then four, then six, it's easy to guess the next number is eight! That’s a pattern. In nature, leaves on a tree might follow a spiral shape because of how they grow, which makes for cool patterns in math too.

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You have cookies, then two more, then two more again, it's easy to see you're eating them in a pattern!
A sunflower’s seeds grow in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, just like counting numbers!
Leaves on a tree grow at angles that create repeating patterns around its stem.

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