Math Around the Word
This ancient civilization used hieroglyphs to write their numbers.
What is Egypt
This is the only even prime number.
What is 2
A shape with 5 sides is called this
What is a pentagon
You use this math skill when you figure out the total cost of items while shopping.
What is addition
This 3-D shape looks like a can of soup.
What is a cylinder
This country is where the digits we use today (0–9) were first developed
What is India
The sum of the angles in any triangle is this many degrees.
What is 180
A number you can’t write as a simple fraction, like π, is called this.
What is irrational
This branch of math helps architects design buildings and understand shapes.
What is geometry
A polygon with 8 sides is called this.
What is an octagon
This famous Greek thinker is known for his right-triangle theorem.
Who is Pythagoras
A number that reads the same forward and backward, like 121, is called this.
What is a palindrome
A graph with a circle divided into slices is called this type of chart.
What is a pie chart
A sports scoreboard uses this type of number to show increases or decreases in points.
What are integers
A number that has more than two factors is called this.
What is composite?
This Italian mathematician introduced the number sequence that starts 1, 1, 2, 3, 5.
Who is Fibonacci
This number is the Roman numeral “X.”
What is 10
This is what you call the answer to a multiplication problem
What is the product
When you split a bill between friends, you're doing this operation.
What is division
A shape that has the same size and shape on both sides is said to have this.
What is symmetry
This place, home to the Great Library, is where mathematician Hypatia lived.
What is Alexandria
This number is called a “square number” because it equals 7 × 7.
What is 49
In algebra, a letter that stands for a number is called this.
What is a variable
This type of average is found by adding numbers and dividing by how many there are.
What is the mean
A pattern that keeps repeating forever, like a snowflake or spiral, is called this.
What is a fractal