Josip Slisko Ignjatov

History of mathematics in teaching: Students’ solutions to Fibonacci’s problem “A lion, a leopard and a bear”

This paper presents an initial exploratory analysis of the use of historical problems in mathematics education. The problems posed by Fibonacci over 800 years ago, besides offering a glimpse into the past, allow students to connect mathematics to real life and arrive at solutions different from those proposed by Fibona...