History of Geometry

What mathematician wrote a 13 book paper called the Elements and is named the Father of Geometry?

• Pythagoras

• Euclid

• Rene Descartes

• Leonhard Euler

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CCSS.HSG.MG.A.1

Which mathematician used algebraic equations to define lines and curves in the coordinate system?

• Leonhard Euler

• Pythagoras

• Rene Descartes

• Euclid

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CCSS.1.G.A.1

CCSS.2.G.A.1

Which mathematician developed geometry with curved surfaces?

• Leonhard Euler

• Pythagoras

• Rene Descartes

• Euclid

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CCSS.1.G.A.1

CCSS.2.G.A.1

Which mathematician developed a geometry that is used in space?

• Katherine Johnson

• Al-mahani

• Maryam Mirzakhani

• Carl Gauss

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CCSS.8.G.A.3

Which mathematician wrote papers about the astrolabe?

• Katherine Johnson

• Al-mahani

• Maryam Mirzakhani

• Carl Gauss

An axiomatic system does not have structure and it is a bunch of ideas put together that may or may not fit together.

• True
• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which word means a statement from which logical deduction begins?

• Undefined terms

• Definitions

• Axioms

• Theorems

Click the 3 items that are examples of undefined terms.

• Points

• Lines

• Rays

• Planes

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

Which is NOT an example of a definition.

• Segment

• Angle

• Plane

• Ray

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

Which mathematician below has a theorem named after him?

• Pythagoras

• Euclid

• Rene Descartes

• Leonhard Euler

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CCSS.8.G.B.8