Donald duck in Mathmagicland

Donald is greeted in Mathmagic Land by a voice who claims to be:

• The True Spirit of Adventure
• Mr. Nelson
• The True Spirit of Math
• The Spirit of Christmas

The first place they visit in Mathmagic Land is:

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Best Buy
• Ancient Pi

__________ was the “master egghead of them all” and the “Father of Mathematics and music”

• Pythagoras
• Donald Duck
• Mr. Nelson
• William Shakespeare

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Pythagoreans and their mathematical formulas inspired the ________ of today.

• music
• sports
• video
• scrambled eggs

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Pythagoras discovered that the pentagram contains many examples of the:

• golden rectangle
• silver square
• titanium trapezoid
• bronze buckle

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To the Greeks, the golden rectangle represented a mathematical law of:

• beauty
• ugliness
• silliness
• oven mitts

The golden rectangle was widely used in:

• architecture
• food preparation
• farming
• TV and Radio

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____________ is a game of mathematical strategy

• Chess
• Monopoly
• Sorry!
• Hungry Hippos

To play __________ you have to know “all the angles”

• billiards
• baseball
• football
• go fish

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In billiards, play the _________ system to make your shots

• diamond
• square
• triangle
• rectangle