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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand Von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
Pi
Angle
Plus sign
Square root
What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
Obtuse
Right
Straight
Acute
What’s the top number of a fraction called?
Denominator
Numerator
Mixed Number
Whole Number
What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
Archimedes
Aristotle
Euclid
Pythagoras
What’s a polygon with four unequal sides called?
Triangle
Rectangle
Quadrilateral
Pentagon
What’s a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
Triangle
Hologram
Pentagon
Rectangle
What number does “giga” stand for?
One Hundred
One Thousand
One Million
One Billion
What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
Five
Three
One
Zero
What word describes a number system with a base of two?
Decimal
Binary
Octal
Hexadecimal
How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
Pentagon
Hexagon
Heptagon
Octagon
What T-word is defined in geometry as “a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it”?
Tangent
Tangerine
Trigonometry
Terms
What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
Hexagon
Heptagon
Octagon
Nonagon
What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
Zero
1
1/2
1/4
What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
X and K
K and M
K and L
X and M
What’s short for “binary digit”?
Bit
Lit
Kit
Pit
What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
Googol
Goose
Goggle
What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with seven sides?
Pentagon
Heptagon
Hexagon
Octagon
What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with ten sides?
Decagon
Nonagon
Octagon
Heptagon
