Geography and Origination
Where some of the earliest recorded evidence of mathematics was found, carved into clay tablets
What is Mesopotamia?
Where early and current mathematicians look to find patterns and sequences
What is Nature?
Where the base 10 numeral system originates
What is India?
The main three reasons for the invention of mathematics
What are Trade, Agriculture, and Astronomy?
The founder of the Pythagorean Theorem
Who is Pythagoras?
Where there was use of triangles found, shown to be even thousands of years before people in Greece used them in mathematics
What is Babylon?
What modern-day researchers use to find evidence of mathematical concepts from earlier math
What are artifacts?
The number that popularized the base ten numeral system
What is zero?
The study in which people used math to track celestial bodies
What is astronomy?
The name of the first known recorded mathematic textbook
What is the Rhind Papyrus?
The eras known for their application of mathematics into astronomy
What are the Persian and Seleucid eras?
The mathematician known for the development of calculus, along with his work in gravitational forces
Who is Newton?
How the base 10 numeral system was brought to the west
What is Trade?
The three reasons people used math to measure land, calculate crop harvests, and manage resources efficiently
What is agriculture?
The name of the oldest noted tool used for math
What is the Ishango Bone?
The person known for their work on The Elements, showing off one of the most prominent mathematic eras
Who is Euclid?
The person credited as the founder of calculus
Who is Gauss?
Another civilization that also discovered the number zero
What is the Maya Civilization?
The main reason people used math to count and measure goods to ensure fair exchanges
What is trade?
The name of the main character from the movie we watched
Who is Katherine G. Johnson?
The two places are most prominently known for our naming and use of our current number system
What are India and Mesopotamia?
The person known as the "father of geometry" today
Who is Euclid?
The two reasons that make the base 10 numeral system easier to write
What are Less Symbols and Similarity to Roman Numerals?
The main reason that people began with math
What is 'solving daily problems - practically'?
The century in which calculus was invented
What is the 17th century?