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The History of Mathematics
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A #Quiz to dispell some #mathmyths about #math origins
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Arabic numerals were developed in...
India
Sumaria (Iraq today)
Greece
China
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Modern algebra and algebraic methods of reduction and balancing originated in...
India
Greece
China
Persia
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The first evidence of multiplication tables came from...
Sumaria (Iraq)
China
France
Greece
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The earliest documented use of the base 10 system was in ...
Eqypt
China
Africa
Sumaria
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1000 years before Pythagoras, the theorem attributed to him was proved in...
Eqypt
India
Babylonia (now Iraq)
France
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Euclid developed ideas about plane geometry from ideas developed in...
Greece
Egypt
Canada
India
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The mechanics of war and ballistics pushed forward the study of calculus in ....
China
France
Britain
Persia
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The country of origin of Fibonacci's sequence...
France
Greece
Italy
Persia
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The 3 X 3 magic square in which each row, column and diagonal adds to 15, originated in...
Eqypt
China
India
Greece
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Which statement (s) about mathematics are true?
People of color were the original founders of mathematics.
Mathematics originated in Africa, Egypt, India, and China.
All of the above.
Modern mathematics is due to a diversity of contributions.
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The first evidence of mathematical thought came from...
Africa
Persia
China
India
