Yesterday my younger son and I did a fun project on continued fractions and the quadratic formula. He really seemed to enjoy it so we stayed on the same topic today.
I started by asking him to recall the relationship that we talked about yesterday and then to make up his own (repeating) continued fraction:
After he’d chosen the continued fraction to study, we looked at the first few approximations to get a feel for what the
Finally he used the quadratic formula to solve for the value of the new continued fraction – it turned out to be !