This depends a lot on what order you learn things. If you start with, say, empirically discovered relationships in the regular pentagon and pentagram, then you

This depends a lot on what order you learn things. If you start with, say, empirically discovered relationships in the regular pentagon and pentagram, then you can figure out φ (ratio of the diagonal to the side of a pentagon) must satisfy φ^2 = φ + 1. Proving that this relationship must hold for the regular pentagon is not too hard. Then start taking powers of φ based on that definition, and you can if you like define the Fibonacci numbers as the coefficient F[i] in φ^i = F[i]φ + F[i-1]. Or define the Fibonacci numbers in the conventional way and simply demonstrate that they show up in the above expression.