The Scientific Method
How we understand the world around us.
What is science?
The earliest evidence for written mathematics.
What is Mesopotamia?
The study of the most general and abstract features of the world and the categories with which we think. A topic of inquiry.
What is Philosophy?
Credibility/believability in terms of writing.
What is authority?
People believed to be the first mathematicians
African women
These are the 6 scientific assumptions.
What is:
1. The world being real
2. The proper perception of the universe
3. Natural processes are enough to explain natural events
4. Our perceptions can be biased or inaccurate
5. Scientific explanations are limited
6. Scientific explanations are probabilistic.
This is where our number system originated.
What is India?
A systemized knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws; especially those obtained and tested through scientific method.
What is Science?
List the 5 different types of sources.
What are:
1. Traditional scholarly sources
2.Gray literature
3. Trade journals
4. Non-traditional research sources
5. Everyday sources
The region of the world where the development of mathematics takes place in the "classical" trajectory.
What is Greece?
A series of steps taken to investigating a natural occurrence.
What is the scientific method?
This period allowed for the exchange of mathematical knowledge and development between different cultures.
What is the dark ages?
In order, list each concept.
1. The study of existence
2. The study of knowledge
3. The study of research
4. The study of moral questions in science
What is:
1. Ontology
2. Epistemology
3. Methodology
4. Research ethics
How would one identify fake news?
1. check the URL
2. Make sure it is not click-bait
3. Determine if the article is biased
4. Check for references
5. Are there constant Ads that appear on the site that deviate from the article?
The author of "On the Origin of Species".
Who is Charles Darwin?
The steps to the scientific method
What is:
1. Question
2. Observations
3. Hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Analyze data
6. Conclusion
7. Communicate results
List 4 historical mathematicians.
Who are
1. Pythagoras
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
A moral method used in the conduction of research/theories/experiments to maintain scientific integrity.
What is the ethos of science?
List the concepts of knowledge.
What is:
Time based knowledge
Intuition
Pragmatic Theory of Truth
Correspondence theory of truth
Credential based knowledge
University knowlegde
The naturalist who had an eerily similar theory to that of Charles Darwin.
Who is Alfred r. Wallace?
Identify the difference between a theory and a hypothesis.
Theory: A tested, well-formulated explanation for a set of verified proven factors.
Hypothesis: An educated guess for an observable phenomenon.
The author of two books based on reunion & reduction, as well as algorithms. This person is also the reason we can attribute our number's origins to India instead of a European country.
Who is Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi?
General reasoning that laws exist because cases that seem to be examples of it exist.
Specific reasoning that something is true because of a universal law.
What is Induction?
What is deduction?
Reasoning without experience.
Experimental learning
What is a priori?
What is a posteriori?
3 positional systems.
Mesopotamian, Chinese rod numeral system and the Mayan system?