Math Scavenger Hunt
After reading each question, click the link
provided. The information requested can
be found at that site. Please answer
the questions using complete sentences.
1.
President J. A. Garfield is attributed
with discovering a proof of a famous theorem.
What was the theorem and in what year did the President accomplish this
feat?
2.
From what Greek word was the geometry
term “tessellate” devived?
3.
What is the Witch of Agnesi and how did
it get its name?
4.
What famous mathematician developed a
method for constructing a table of prime numbers and what is his method called?
5.
Who is famous for taking pi out to 35
decimal places and in what year did this take place?
6.
What famous mathematician wrote the
Elements and how many books were in this collection?
7.
Give the full name of a mathematician
born on this day.
8.
What were the
names of the two ancient cultures that are believed to have first known about
the existence of pi?
9.
What is the current value of $100 (US)
in German Deutsche Marks?
10.How did Florence
Nightingale applied the use of statistics
to improve data
collection in hospitals? (last paragraph)
11.What is Archimedes
Screw?
12.What is
a fractal?
13.
Who is responsible for the present
interest in the area of fractal geometry?
14.
In 1978 the first computer graphic of
the Mandelbrot Set was generated by whom?
15.
What is the largest 4 digit Friedman
number?
16.
In the top ten reasons for not turning
in your homework, what is #8?
17.
In what century was origami first
mentioned?
18.
Blaise Pascal is famous for Pascal’s
Triangle. List the numbers in the 6th
row of this triangle in order. Be
careful the first row is the zero row.
19.
Archimedes was responsible for revealing
that a crown made for the king was not pure gold. What was Archimedes doing when he realized how he could prove the
crown was not gold and what did he say at that moment?
20.
Napoleon fancied himself as a geometer
and is credited with a theorem. What is
Napoleon’s Theorem?
