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Math History Challenge!
Math History Challenge!
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This fun quiz is meant to test your trivia knowledge of math history!
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1
the addition (+) and subtraction (-) have been around for...?
decades
millenia
thousands of years
hundreds of years
2
Which country used mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC?
China
Babylon
Egypt
Greece
3
Recent advances in math have been contibuted to this invention
public schools, duh!
abacus
writing
computers
4
The term Googol (10
100
, ie, 10 followed by 100 zeros) was invented by...
A nine-year old boy named Milton Sirotta
Google founder Larry Page
A Computer Scientist in India
A mathematician from MIT
5
This number is considered unlucky in much of Asia
4
3
6
13
6
From 0 to 1000, the letter "A" only appears how many times?
10 times
Once
100 times
72 times
7
The equals sign (=) was invented in ______ by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
1657
1557
1357
1457
8
In a room of just 23 people there’s a __% chance that two people have the same birthday.
50%
25%
10%
90%
9
Most mathematical symbols were invented in which century?
16th
13th
14th
15th
10
Which cultures gave us the numbers we used today?
Russian-Chinese
Arabic-Hindu
Greek-Roman
Aztec-Incan
11
The most popular favorite number of people is...?
3
7
8
1
12
The oldest mathematical games in the world originated in...
Asia
South America
The middle east
Africa
