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CHINESE
AFRICAN
MAYA / INCA
EGYPTIAN
GREEK
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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
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WHAT IS A TANGRAM?
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IT CAN CALCULATE UP TO 9,999,999,999,999
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WHAT IS AN ABACUS?
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A SYSTEM FOR GROUPING VALUES OURS IS 10
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WHAT IS A BASE?
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THE CHINESE WERE THE FIRST TO INVENT THIS
SYSTEM BASED ON 2
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WHAT IS BINARY?
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WHAT IS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9? (Shang
numerals)
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THIS BONE WAS DATED ANYWHERE FROM 15,000
TO 35,000 YEARS OLD
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WHAT IS THE LEBOMBO BONE?
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WHAT IS THE ISHANGO BONE?
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AN ITEM REPRESENTING A QUANTITY MORE THAN ONE
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WHAT IS A TOKEN?
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A WAY OF EXPRESSING NUMBER WITHOUT WORDS,
WRITING, OR OBJECTS
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WHAT IS BODY COUNTING OR GESTURE COUNTING?
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SWAZILANDS NEIGHBORS
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WHAT ARE SOUTH AFRICA AND/OR MOZAMBIQUE?
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AN ACCOUNTING DEVICE USED BY THE INCANS
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WHAT IS A QUIPU?
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THE DEGREE OF ACCURACY OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR
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WHAT IS TWO SECONDS?
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VIGESIMAL SYSTEM (HINT, THIS IS THE NAME OF A
BASE)
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WHAT IS THE NAME OF A BASE 20 SYSTEM?
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WHAT IS ZERO?
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WHAT IS 7 9 16?
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THE NAME OF THE GREAT PYRAMID
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CHEOPS PYRAMID OF GIZA
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THIS RIVER OVERFLOWED EACH YEAR CREATING A NEED
FOR MATHEMATICS TO REDEFINE PROPERTY LINES
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WHAT IS THE NILE?
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THE EGYPTIANS INVENTED THIS METHOD OF FIGURING A
RIGHT ANGLE
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WHAT IS ROPE STRETCHING?
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WHAT IS 13 IN EGYTIAN?
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THIS CITY BECAME THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE
EGYPTIAN, GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS FROM THE TIME OF
EUCLID TO HYPATIA
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WHAT IS ALEXANDRIA?
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A SQUARED PLUS B SQUARE EQUALS C SQUARED a2 b2
c2
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WHAT IS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM?
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A TYPE OF REASONING WHERE ONE OBSERVES AND DRAWS
CONCLUSIONS THAT ARE THEN APPLIED TO SPECIFIC
SITUATIONS (THINK THALES!)
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WHAT IS A DEDUCTIVE REASONING?
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A METHOD OF FINDING A VALUE BY CONSTRUCTING
FIGURES CLOSE AND CLOSER TO THE VALUE
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WHAT IS ARCHIMEDES METHOD?
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HE THOUGHT NUMBERS WERE LIKE FAMILIES, SO
HE CREATED QUITE A FEW OF THEM
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WHO IS PYTHAGORAS?
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CLEOPATRA DESCENDED FROM THIS FAMOUS GREEK
MATHEMATICIAN / ASTRONOMER
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WHO IS PTOLEMY?