View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Heron's Formula for Triangular Area.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides being a mathematician, what else other work was Archimedes famous for?
(a) Politician.
(b) Doctor and writer,
(c) Inventor and scientist.
(d) Artist and musician.

2. What was known about pi, during Archimedes' time?
(a) That it could not be assigned a relationship between measurements in a circle.
(b) Nothing, the concept of pi was unknown.
(c) That it was never the same number value for a given circle.
(d) That is was the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle.

3. Numbers whose divisor add up to itself, was considered which type of number according to Euclid?
(a) Nominal number.
(b) Even number.
(c) Composite number.
(d) Perfect number.

4. What was most useful about finding the square of a shape, before Hippocrates?
(a) It was useful in finding the area of oddly shaped pieces of land.
(b) It was useful in creating simple elevation maps,
(c) It was useful in determining the distance between two points.
(d) It was useful in finding the area of circles.

5. Who was the author of the book Elements?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Euclid.
(c) Lindemann.
(d) Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following could NOT be included as a step in Euclid's great theorem?

2. Which of the following was NOT one of the things Dunham claimed was ingenious about Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem?

3. What did Archimedes manage to prove using Euclid's ideas?

4. Heron devised which of the following methods?

5. What did Heron's advances put into historical perspective for Dunham?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 457 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample