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Mathematics Trivia Quiz

A collection of three sets of general information of mathematics trivia quiz with answers for you to use at home or at school. Have fun!

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John Napier

John Napier, Laird of Merchiston, was born in Merchiston Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1550. Logarithms is the greatest of his invention. he began working on his computational method a early as 1594.

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How to work out percentages

In order to find x percent of any number the general way of doing that is to multiply the number by the percentage. Since percentage means hundredths of any number, percentages are written with the decimal point moved two places toward the left-hand side. With whole numbers the decimal point does not show, and since moving the decimal point over one place would

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How to Develop a Cone

How to develop a cone or how to create a flat pattern of a cone can be achieved in a few easy geometrical steps. The geometrical method shown below does however have inaccuracy, so at the end of this hub I...

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Squaring Numbers in seconds87

How to square numbers easy and fast using Vedic Mathematics?

The square of numbers can be calculated in less than 10 seconds using vedic mathematics. Description of this system is given on the hub.

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The Red Numbers which Run Up & Across are Multiplied The Blue Numbers on the Diagonal are the Square83

How to square a number

My daughter use to struggle when it came to squaring numbers. Once I explained you're only multiplying any number by itself . If you know how to Square numbers you will save time and look clever. Now my 9...

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How to use set notation

Set notation is a precise way of describing which items belong in a group and which do not.A set can contain any sort of item, but here we'll talk about sets of numbers. Very specific symbols are used in...

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Division made easy86

Divide Numbers fast and easy using Vedic Mathematics

ivision also becomes easy using Vedic mathematics techniques. As multiplication can be done easily using Vedic math’s formulae, similarly Division becomes simple using this. Earlier I surprised when I was learning this formulae how this works really right and perfect. But it is true that using this one can do division without much of the paper work.

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How to work out percentages

Most math concepts can be simple if one understands what the question really is... 'Percent' is a two parts word and comes from the latin PER CENTUM translated it means 'Per one hundred' in actual facts the...

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Leonardo Fibonacci also known as Leonardo Pisano. His most famous work  “Liber abaci’ or book of the abacus was written in 1202.  It was the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics 79

Leonardo Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci was the greatest European mathematician of the Middle ages. He was born in Pisa in Italy circa 1170 and died some time after 1240. He introduced the Fibonacci numbers and the Fibonacci sequence for which he s best remembered today.

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