History of Math (ideal for Grades 3-6)

Primitive Math: How Neanderthals Counted
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STEM Quiz (Grades 3-6): Primitive Math
Ancient Babylon: Why Is 1 Hour 60 Minutes?
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Ancient Babylon
Ancient Egypt: How to Build a Pyramid
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece I: Symmetry
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Ancient Greece I
Ancient Greece II: How One Man Knew the Earth was Round
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Ancient Greece II
Ancient Greece III: Why Pythagoras Worshipped the Sunrise
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Ancient Greece III
Ancient Greece IV: Zeno’s Paradox and Infinity
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Ancient Greece IV
Ancient Greece V: How Do We Know 2+2 = 4?
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Ancient Greece V
Ancient China: Can You Solve This Magic Square?
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Ancient China
Ancient India: Where Did 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Come From?
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Ancient India
History of Banned Numbers: When Math Was Illegal
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Illegal Numbers
Al Khwarizmi: The First Person to Solve for X
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Al Khwarizmi
Ancient Arabic Art
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Ancient Arabic Art
Italian Math: Fibonacci and Nature’s Magic Number
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STEM Quiz (Grades 3-6): Fibonacci Sequence
Medieval France: Pascal’s Triangle
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Pascal
The Greatest War in Math: Newton vs Leibniz
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Calculus Wars
The Prince of Math: Karl Friedrich Gauss
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STEM Quiz (Grades 3-6): The Prince of Math: Gauss
The King of Math: Leonhard Euler
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Euler
How One 12-Year-Old Outsmarted the British: Ramanujan
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Ramanujan
The Math That Powers Your Chromebook: Alan Turing
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Turing
Philosophy of Math: Are Numbers Real?
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Philosophy
How Black Mathematicians Got Us to Space
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Black Mathematicians
Modern Math Symbols: Why is plus +?
1 Quiz
Symbols
The Map of Mathematics
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Ancient Babylon: Why Is 1 Hour 60 Minutes?

History of Math (ideal for Grades 3-6) Ancient Babylon: Why Is 1 Hour 60 Minutes?

Challenge question for you parents: Why are there 60 seconds in a minute?

 

 

 

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