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Who is this mathematician
Descartes
Fibonacci
Fibonacci
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Who is this mathematician
Fibonacci
Newton
Leibniz
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What famous quote (s) were made by Albert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
All of the above
"Mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of
Algebra
Infinitesimal Calculus
Trigonometry
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_used algebra, arithmetic & geometry in 3000 BC, ex equations to approx the area of circles.
Ancient Europeans
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Chinese
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Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to
Father of Geometry
Creating the Pythagorean theorem
Fibonacci sequence
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Mathematics is important to jobs, related to engineering, business, science, medicine and more.
False
True
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"No employment can be managed without arithmetic,no mechanical invention without geometry"Quote
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Ben Franklin
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measured the circle circumference as 3 times the diameter, as today, the value of Pi 3.14).
Babylonians
Europeans
Chinese
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Who is this great mathematician
Fibonnaci
Euclid
Isaac Newton
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The maximum distance through the sphere is called the diameter, it is _the size of the radius.
three times
four times
twice
12
The basic arithmetic operations used in mathematics are
Addition, subtraction, multiplication , decimals
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Addition, fractions, subtractions division
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Who is this mathematician
Descartes
Fibonacci
Euclid
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The distance from the center of a sphere to its surface is called the
Radius
midpoint
Diameter
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Modern mathematics has advanced greatly thanks to the incredible computing power of
Computers
Adding machines
Cellular phones
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A cube has 12 edges.
False
True
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A cube has __square faces.
4 faces
5 faces
6 faces
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In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the
mechanical calculator.
weighing scale
clock
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The word ‘geometry’ comes from the Greek words ‘geo’, meaning __ and ‘metria’, meaning measure.
Grand
Earth
Circle
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Who is this mathematician
Euclid
Fibonacci
Isaac Newton
