Module 4 math jeopardy

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A - 100• Which math pioneer is credited for

the 17-sided heptadecagon?

Carl F. Gauss

A - 200• Which pioneer first learned Hindu-

Arabic numerals?

Fibonacci

A - 300• Which pioneer is credited for the

Golden Ratio?

Fibonacci

A - 400• Who created the pattern-filled

triangle of numbers?

Blaise Pascal

A - 500• Which math pioneer first worked with

Pi?

Leonhard Euler

B - 100• What was Pythagoras considered the

father of?

Numbers

B - 200• Who is Texas Hold ‘Em credited to?

Blaise Pascal

B - 300• What type of triangles does the

Pythagorean Theorem work for?

Right Triangles

B - 400• Which math pioneer is credited for

the Number Theory?

Carl F. Gauss

B - 500• True or False: Newton’s work was

credited to someone else

True

C - 100• Which math pioneer was considered

a child prodigy?

Carl F. Gauss

C - 200• What math idea was Sir Isaac

Newton credited for?

The Generalized Binomial Theorem

C - 300• True or False: Euler has two numbers

named after him

True

C - 400• Which math pioneer was the Father

of Geometry?

Rene Descartes

C - 500• Who do we credit for coordinate

planes?

Rene Descartes

D - 100• Which pioneer created a number

sequence?

Fibonacci

D - 200• Which pioneer loved probability?

Blaise Pascal

D - 300• Which pioneer’s theorem is a way to

expand powers of a binomial?

Newton’s

D - 400• Who created the branch of mathematics

that deals with natural numbers and integers?

Gauss

D - 500• True or False: The Fibonacci Numbers

were a sequence

True

E - 100• Which math pioneer used superscripts to

represent exponents?

Rene Descartes

E - 200• Named after Rene Descartes, what were

coordinate planes originally called?

Cartesian Coordinates

E - 300• Which pioneer’s work is used in analytical

geometry?

Descartes

E - 400• Which pioneer created a way to write a

function?

Euler

E - 500• True or False: The Euler-Mascheroni

constant is a number named after Euler

True

F - 100• Mathematicians have made the Golden

Rectangle using which of Fibonacci’s works?

The Golden Ratio

F - 200• When was Gauss recognized as a child

prodigy?

Elementary School

F - 300• Gauss’s Number Theory has this

nickname because of its importance to mathematics

Queen of Mathematics

F - 400• How did Pascal create his triangle?

Looking at binomial coefficients

F - 500• What is Pythagorean’s famous formula?

a²+b²=c²