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CHINESE. AFRICAN. MAYA / INCA. EGYPTIAN. GREEK. 1pt. 1 pt. 1 pt. 1pt. 1 pt. 2 pt. 2 pt. 2pt. 2pt. 2 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 3 pt. 4 pt. 4 pt. 4pt. 4 pt. 4pt. 5pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. 5 pt. A Chinese puzzle made by cutting a square

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  1. CHINESE AFRICAN MAYA / INCA EGYPTIAN GREEK 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt

  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?

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

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

  12. WHAT IS THE LEBOMBO BONE?

  13. WHAT IS THE ISHANGO BONE?

  14. AN ITEM REPRESENTING A QUANTITY MORE THAN ONE

  15. WHAT IS A TOKEN?

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

  17. WHAT IS BODY COUNTING OR GESTURE COUNTING?

  18. SWAZILAND’S NEIGHBORS

  19. WHAT ARE SOUTH AFRICA AND/OR MOZAMBIQUE?

  20. AN ACCOUNTING DEVICE USED BY THE INCANS

  21. WHAT IS A QUIPU?

  22. THE DEGREE OF ACCURACY OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR

  23. WHAT IS TWO SECONDS?

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

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

  26. WHAT IS ZERO?

  27. WHAT IS 7 + 9 = 16?

  28. THE NAME OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

  29. CHEOPS PYRAMID OF GIZA

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

  31. WHAT IS THE NILE?

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

  33. WHAT IS ROPE STRETCHING?

  34. WHAT IS 13 IN EGYTIAN?

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

  36. WHAT IS ALEXANDRIA?

  37. A SQUARED PLUS B SQUARE EQUALS C SQUARED a2 + b2 = c2

  38. WHAT IS THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM?

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

  40. WHAT IS A DEDUCTIVE REASONING?

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

  42. WHAT IS ARCHIMEDES METHOD?

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

  44. WHO IS PYTHAGORAS?

  45. CLEOPATRA DESCENDED FROM THIS FAMOUS GREEK MATHEMATICIAN / ASTRONOMER

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