Math History Quiz
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is often credited as the "Father of Geometry"?
Euclid
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Isaac Newton
Carl Friedrich Gauss
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which ancient civilization developed a positional number system and made significant contributions to algebra and geometry?
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient China
Ancient India
Ancient Babylonians
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who introduced the concept of zero to the world of mathematics?
Leonardo Fibonacci
René Descartes
Aryabhata
Isaac Newton
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Tags
CCSS.5.NBT.A.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The ancient Babylonians used a number system based on which number?
8
10
12
42
60
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is considered the founder of modern calculus?
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Galileo Galilei
Carl Friedrich Gauss
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is known for discovering and proving the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, which states that every positive integer greater than 1 is either a prime number or can be uniquely factorized into a product of prime numbers?
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Pierre de Fermat
Euclid
René Descartes
Tags
CCSS.4.OA.B.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is credited with introducing the concept of infinity to mathematics?
Georg Cantor
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
René Descartes
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Tags
CCSS.8.EE.A.3
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