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by Anarose Bayong

​Sir ISAAC NEWTON

born December 25, 1642

[January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.

Multiple Choice

According to the Gregorian calendar, what is Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday?

• December 25, 1642

• January 4, 1643

Multiple Choice

What is his nationality?

• Thai

• English

• Filipino

• Martian

Multiple Choice

How old was he when he died?

• 83

• 84

• 85

• 888

​3 months before he was born, his father died. He was a premature baby.

When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough.​

Multiple Choice

Sir Isaac Newton knew his biological father.

• true

• false

​From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School, Grantham.

His stepfather died and her mother went back to their hometown. She removed Isaac from school and asked him to farm for their family.

The headmaster of Isaac's school persuaded his mother to send him back to school.

​X

​ In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on the recommendation of his uncle Rev William Ayscough, who had studied there. He started as a subsizar—paying his way by performing valet's duties—until he was awarded a scholarship in 1664, guaranteeing him four more years until he could get his MA.

Multiple Choice

Sir Isaac Newton's family was rich.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Isaac Newton's worked to pay for his schooling?

• true

• false

He continued to work on mathematical problems he had begun at Cambridge; the papers he wrote on this became early calculus.

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Next, he acquired a few prisms and experimented with them in his bedroom, even going so far as to bore a hole in his shutters so only a small beam could come through. From this sprung his theories on optics.

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And right outside his window

at Woolsthorpe, there was an apple tree.

That apple tree.

Multiple Choice

An epidemic happens all around the world.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

What did Isaac Newton do when his school was closed?

• He stayed home and slept.

• He visited the beach and went swimming.

• He went home slept and ate food.

• He continued studying on his own.

Poll

During this Covid-19 Pandemic, do you think you can also discover or invent something while studying at home?

• yes

• no

• maybe

Open Ended

Why?