Euclid
Triangles
Classroom Trivia
History of Math
Foreshadowing the Future
100

Euclid defines this as breadless length. 

What is a line?

100

This type of triangle has no equal sides.

What is a scalene triangle?

100

This is the teacher who loaned us the curtain setup to block the window. 

Who is the most magnificent Mrs. Faust-Frodl!!!

Please make sure to tell her "Thank you!!!!"

100

This Mathematician created Calculus to calculate the movement of the planets and the movement. 

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

100
This is what a polygon with 9 sides is called. 

What is a nonagon?

200

This particular Common Notion states that the whole is greater than the part.

What is Common Notion 5?

200

This type of triangle has all sides and all angles equal. 

What is an equilateral triangle?

200

This is the philosopher who said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain two conflicting ideas while accepting neither."

Who is Aristotle?

200
Euclid was the great compiler of Greek Mathematics. This Greek Mathematician was the great innovator of Greek Mathematics and Science (hint: Eureka!).

Who is Archimedes?

200

This is the name of a polygon with 17 sides.

What is a heptadecagon or septadecagon?

300

This particular definition defines parallel lines.

What is definition 23?

300

This type of triangle has two equal sides.

What is an isosceles triangle?

300

This is the artist responsible for most of the artwork in this room. 

Who is M.C. Escher?

300

This Mathematician created what we know as modern algebra. (He was also a philosopher famous for his line, "Cogito ergo sum."

Who is Descartes?

300

This is the name of the solid created when a circle is rotated in 3 dimensional space. 

What is a sphere?

400

This proposition demonstrated how to create a triangle from a given set of lines where any two in combination were greater than the third. 

What is Proposition 22?

400

This is the longest side in a right triangle.

What is the hypotenuse?

400

This is the teacher who owns the framed map.

Who is Mr. B. Smith?

400

This mathematician never wrote anything down and yet has the most famous theorem in the history of mathematics bears his name. 

Who is Pythagoras?

400

This is the name of the solid created when you rotate a right triangle in 3 dimensional space. 

What is a cone?

500

This is the most disputed portion of Euclid's Elements. 

What is Postulate 5?

500

These are the two shorter sides in a right triangle.

What are the legs?

500

This is the person responsible for breaking Mr. Weeks' large triangle straight edge.

Who is Graham McNair?

500

This is the reason that there are 360 degrees in a circle. 

The Babylonians thought there were 360 days in a day. 

500

This is the branch of Mathematics that focuses on ratios in right triangles.

What is Trigonometry?