Math Basics
What is the term for an answer you get when you add two numbers together.
Sum
Once quoted "I never failed in mathematics....before I as fifteen I had mastered differential integral calculus."
Albert Einstein
Mathematicians explored non-Euclidean geometry, set theory and formal logic
Abstract Math
Who were among the first to have used math?
Egyptians
When you multiply two numbers together, the final result is called this.
A product
An English polymath who independently developed calculus and revolutionized our understanding of physical motion.
Early humans used tally marks on bones and sticks to county livestock, track days, and measure seasons.
Basic Survival
_____ came about in Alexandria in the 4th century BC
Algebra
A quotient
A Greek philosopher known for the Pythagorean theorem relating the sides of the right triangle.
Pythagoras
Ancient Egypt
Blaise Pascal gives us the calculations of the
Probability
The sum of all interior angles in any flat triangle will always equal this many degrees
180 degrees
The most talented western mathematician of the middle ages, who included a sequence of numbers known today as "Fibonacci numbers."
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo
Found in the Congo, this 20,000 year old babylonian or African bone features carved notches used for early counting or lunar tracking
Ishango Bone
In what year was the Schools Council formed, to regulate, for the first time, the syllabus of exams in the UK.
1964
A standard prism has the exact same relationship to a pyramid as a cylinder does to this 3D shape.
The "Cartesian coordinate system" in mathematics is named after.
Rene Descartes
Pioneered the foundation of algebra and expanded trigonometry.
Al-Khwarizmi
In what year was arithmetic being taught, free of charge at "Ragged Schools"
1818