Math History Quiz

Math History Quiz

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Math History Quiz

Math History Quiz

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Mathematics

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CCSS
8.NS.A.1, 8.EE.C.7B, 5.NBT.A.2

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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


  1. 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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