Middle School Madness

Weekly problems for middle school students ready for a challenge. These puzzles enhance logical thinking and make math exciting and rewarding.

The famous Fibonacci sequence is found by adding the two previous terms to arrive at the next term.  You begin the sequence with 1 and 1 as the first two numbers.  The third number in the sequence is found by adding the first two numbers or 1 + 1 = 2 giving 1, 1, 2.  The fourth numbers is found by adding 1 + 2 = 3 for 1, 1, 2, 3.  The fifth term is 5 and sixth term is 8 for 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. What is the 23rd term in the Fibonacci Sequence?


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