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A Chinese puzzle made by cutting a square into material into a number of pieces which can be recombined into many different figures
WHAT IS A TANGRAM?
IT CAN CALCULATE UP TO 9,999,999,999,999
WHAT IS AN ABACUS?
A SYSTEM FOR GROUPING VALUES – OURS IS 10
WHAT IS A BASE?
THE CHINESE WERE THE FIRST TO INVENT THIS SYSTEM BASED ON 2
WHAT IS BINARY?
WHAT IS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9? (Shang numerals)
THIS BONE WAS DATED ANYWHERE FROM 15,000 TO 35,000 YEARS OLD
WHAT IS THE LEBOMBO BONE?
WHAT IS THE ISHANGO BONE?
AN ITEM REPRESENTING A QUANTITY MORE THAN ONE
WHAT IS A TOKEN?
A WAY OF EXPRESSING NUMBER WITHOUT WORDS, WRITING, OR OBJECTS
WHAT IS BODY COUNTING OR GESTURE COUNTING?
SWAZILAND’S NEIGHBORS
WHAT ARE SOUTH AFRICA AND/OR MOZAMBIQUE?
AN ACCOUNTING DEVICE USED BY THE INCANS
WHAT IS A QUIPU?
THE DEGREE OF ACCURACY OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR
WHAT IS TWO SECONDS?
VIGESIMAL SYSTEM (HINT, THIS IS THE NAME OF A BASE)
WHAT IS THE NAME OF A BASE 20 SYSTEM?
WHAT IS ZERO?
WHAT IS = 16?
THE NAME OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
CHEOPS PYRAMID OF GIZA
THIS RIVER OVERFLOWED EACH YEAR CREATING A NEED FOR MATHEMATICS TO REDEFINE PROPERTY LINES
WHAT IS THE NILE?
THE EGYPTIANS INVENTED THIS METHOD OF FIGURING A RIGHT ANGLE
WHAT IS ROPE STRETCHING?
WHAT IS 13 IN EGYTIAN?
THIS CITY BECAME THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS FROM THE TIME OF EUCLID TO HYPATIA
WHAT IS ALEXANDRIA?
A SQUARED PLUS B SQUARE EQUALS C SQUARED a 2 + b 2 = c 2
WHAT IS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM?
A TYPE OF REASONING WHERE ONE OBSERVES AND DRAWS CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE THEN APPLIED TO SPECIFIC SITUATIONS (THINK THALES!)
WHAT IS A DEDUCTIVE REASONING?
A METHOD OF FINDING A VALUE BY CONSTRUCTING FIGURES CLOSE AND CLOSER TO THE VALUE
WHAT IS ARCHIMEDES METHOD?
HE THOUGHT NUMBERS WERE LIKE FAMILIES, SO HE CREATED QUITE A FEW OF THEM
WHO IS PYTHAGORAS?
CLEOPATRA DESCENDED FROM THIS FAMOUS GREEK MATHEMATICIAN / ASTRONOMER
WHO IS PTOLEMY?