1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt CHINESEAFRICAN MAYA / INCA EGYPTIANGREEK

2. A Chinese puzzle made by cutting a square into material into a number of pieces which can be recombined into many different figures

3. WHAT IS A TANGRAM?

4. IT CAN CALCULATE UP TO 9,999,999,999,999

5. WHAT IS AN ABACUS?

6. A SYSTEM FOR GROUPING VALUES – OURS IS 10

7. WHAT IS A BASE?

8. THE CHINESE WERE THE FIRST TO INVENT THIS SYSTEM BASED ON 2

9. WHAT IS BINARY?

11. WHAT IS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9? (Shang numerals)

12. THIS BONE WAS DATED ANYWHERE FROM 15,000 TO 35,000 YEARS OLD

13. WHAT IS THE LEBOMBO BONE?

15. WHAT IS THE ISHANGO BONE?

16. AN ITEM REPRESENTING A QUANTITY MORE THAN ONE

17. WHAT IS A TOKEN?

18. A WAY OF EXPRESSING NUMBER WITHOUT WORDS, WRITING, OR OBJECTS

19. WHAT IS BODY COUNTING OR GESTURE COUNTING?

20. SWAZILAND’S NEIGHBORS

21. WHAT ARE SOUTH AFRICA AND/OR MOZAMBIQUE?

22. AN ACCOUNTING DEVICE USED BY THE INCANS

23. WHAT IS A QUIPU?

24. THE DEGREE OF ACCURACY OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR

25. WHAT IS TWO SECONDS?

26. VIGESIMAL SYSTEM (HINT, THIS IS THE NAME OF A BASE)

27. WHAT IS THE NAME OF A BASE 20 SYSTEM?

29. WHAT IS ZERO?

31. WHAT IS 7 + 9 = 16?

32. THE NAME OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

33. CHEOPS PYRAMID OF GIZA

34. THIS RIVER OVERFLOWED EACH YEAR CREATING A NEED FOR MATHEMATICS TO REDEFINE PROPERTY LINES

35. WHAT IS THE NILE?

36. THE EGYPTIANS INVENTED THIS METHOD OF FIGURING A RIGHT ANGLE

37. WHAT IS ROPE STRETCHING?

39. WHAT IS 13 IN EGYTIAN?

40. THIS CITY BECAME THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS FROM THE TIME OF EUCLID TO HYPATIA

41. WHAT IS ALEXANDRIA?

42. A SQUARED PLUS B SQUARE EQUALS C SQUARED a 2 + b 2 = c 2

43. WHAT IS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM?

44. A TYPE OF REASONING WHERE ONE OBSERVES AND DRAWS CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE THEN APPLIED TO SPECIFIC SITUATIONS (THINK THALES!)

45. WHAT IS A DEDUCTIVE REASONING?

46. A METHOD OF FINDING A VALUE BY CONSTRUCTING FIGURES CLOSE AND CLOSER TO THE VALUE

47. WHAT IS ARCHIMEDES METHOD?

48. HE THOUGHT NUMBERS WERE LIKE FAMILIES, SO HE CREATED QUITE A FEW OF THEM

49. WHO IS PYTHAGORAS?

50. CLEOPATRA DESCENDED FROM THIS FAMOUS GREEK MATHEMATICIAN / ASTRONOMER

51. WHO IS PTOLEMY?