STEM Quiz (Grades 3-6): The Prince of Math: Gauss
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Question 1 of 12
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What is 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10?
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Hint: you may do it manually, or you may use young Gauss’ method
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Question 2 of 12
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Ask your parents if they can solve Gauss’ problem: 1+2+3+4+5+6+…+ 100 (meaning, add up every number up to 100): They will struggle, while you will know that the answer is
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Question 3 of 12
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Solve a problem more difficult than Gauss’ problem: 1+2+3+4+5+6+…+ 1000=
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Note the pattern:
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Question 4 of 12
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What is the square root of 9?
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Question 5 of 12
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Take a number, call it N. Take its square root. Now square that. What do you get?
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Question 6 of 12
6. Question
What is the square root of -1?
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Question 7 of 12
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Can you have “i” of something? Does that make it not a number?
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Question 8 of 12
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When Carl Friedrich Gauss was a 7 year old student at a university in Germany, his teacher gave him a very challenging problem: Add up 1+2+4+…all the way up to 100. Gauss was able to solve this problem in less than 5 minutes, shocking his teacher.
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Hint: 5 letter word starting with ‘cr,” meaning, purposely causing pain or suffering to others, and feeling no concern about it.
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Question 9 of 12
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Gauss would later become one of the most influential mathematicians in history, and would change many beliefs that people had held for centuries. But, we should not think of Gauss as some one-of-a-kind math god. Many of his discoveries used simple math — in a way.
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Hint: 8 letter word starting with ‘cr,” meaning, relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
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Question 10 of 12
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Gauss showed that addition is related to triangles. He showed each number as a stack of squares, and then when he wrote out the numbers 1 to 100, the shape of the squares was a triangle. This is an example of two fields of math helping each other out. What two fields are they?
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Question 11 of 12
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Once upon a time there was a man named Gauss. He was the “ of mathematics”, and has discovered many useful math facts including imaginary numbers.
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Hint: 6 letter word starting with “pr,” meaning a man or thing regarded as outstanding or excellent in a particular sphere or group.
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Question 12 of 12
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Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first one to connect _______ numbers to the world, showing that these numbers can help us solve basic problems. In fact, every day, our phones and computers use these numbers to work.
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