Fibonacci Avatar Season

An avatar season is when we make a special avatar outfit available for a short time. Students can only buy this outfit during the Avatar Season. Once the Season is over, it won't be available to purchase ever again. It's a common practice in most video games, so your students are probably already familiar with the term "Season".

The limited time availability of the outfit will create a sense of urgency and encourage your students to log in and play. It also gives you another reason to talk about times tables and keep them front and centre of everybody's minds.

Each avatar season will have a theme, and we are starting with a doozy! Fibonacci!

For those not familiar, Leonardo Fibonacci was a mathematician born in Pisa, Italy, around 1170.

In one of his books, he introduced Europe to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

Before Fibonacci’s book, Europeans mostly relied on Roman numerals. Because of his work, the Hindu-Arabic system became the global standard.

However, he’s probably best known for coming up with the Fibonacci sequence. It starts with 0 and 1, and every new number is just the sum of the two before it.

When this sequence is made with squares, it forms a special spiral.

What’s cool is that this pattern shows up all over nature—you can spot it in the way sunflower seeds are arranged or in the spiral of a seashell, or the petals of a flower.

Students can purchase the special avatar items from the avatar store with the coins they earn when they play TTRS. To make the most of the season, it's important that you introduce it to your students. You can show them our Fibonacci Season introduction video and put up the special poster.