Fibonacci

I have just read the story Fibonacci's cows to the class and we have studied Fibonacci's famous number sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144_ _ _ _ _ Your child has been asked to continue the pattern for the homework  exercise below.
What I have asked them to do is to continue the pattern, giving the next ten numbers in the sequence. They are then to use a calculator to divide the numeral before into the numeral after and write the decimal answer to three decimal places. Having done this we will analyse the results as a class.
If you've read the "Da Vinci Code" you may recognise the above sequence. Few people realise however that Fibonacci's greatest contribution to the Western World was to introduce the Hindu- Arabic number system which contained the digit zero. Until the 11th century European's were not able to create a place value because of it's  absence. Mathematicians such as Pythagoras knew of its existence but because of its powers refused to utilise it. 
Had we accepted its existence when first discovered, it is said that technology now would be 2oo years advanced.