MATH QUIZ BEE - IT'S ALL ABOUT MATH - GRADE 7 - 12

Who invented Algebra?

• Pythagoras

• Al-Khwarizmi

• Archimedes

• Aryabhatta

Who hit upon the idea of “Cartesian co-ordinate”?

• Rene Descartes

• Blaise Pascal

•  Leonhard Euler

• Isaac Newton

“Googol” is one of the smallest numbers. What does it stand for?

•  1 followed by a hundred 0s.

• 1 followed by a thousand 0s.

• 1 followed by a million 0s.

• 1 followed by a billion 0s.

What are the irrational numbers also known as?

•  Prime numbers

• Transitive numbers

• Transcendental numbers.

• Composite numbers

What is the number which is divisible by the sum of its own digits when written in that base called?

• Fibonacci number

• Catalan number

• Lucas number

• Harshad number

Who discovered negative numbers?

• Arabs

• Indians

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• The letter z

• The letter r

• The elongated form of z

• The elongated form of v

• John Wallis

• Antoine Arnauld

• Leonhard Euler

• Bhaskara

• J.H. Lambert

• John Wallis

• Leonhard Euler

• William Jones

What is a polygon with 15 sides called?

• Pentagon

• Quindecagon

• Heptagon

• Dodecagon