About Us
We are Dagmar, Lotte, Sofie and Sophie. We are on Het College Weert and we study Gymnasium TTO. Our class is called G2B. Our project is about the first math that ever existed. We chose this because it sounded interesting and we wanted to know more about it. We hope it is going to be a really interesting research and we will going to get a lot of new information.
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DagmarHey,
My name is Dagmar and I am 13 years old. My hobbies are playing volleyball and the clarinet. I like alpha and gamma subjects more than beta subjects but I am still looking forward to do this project. |
Lotte
Hey,
My name is Lotte and I am 12 years old. I like playing the flute, handball, watching Netflix etcetera. I do not know what I want to do later. I would like to be a doctor. |
Sofie
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My name is Sofie and I am 13 years old. I like playing hockey or watching Netflix and hanging out with some friends. I do not know what I want to do when I am older. |
Sophie
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My name is Sophie and I am 13 years old. I like playing hockey and the piano, and watching Netflix. I do not know what I want to do when I am older. |
Our researsch
We are going to find out everything about how math started to exist and how it grew into the math of this. How the prehistoric people used it and for what.
Math started when people wanted to count the seasons. In the beginning they made stripes on stone. After a while there were too much stripes and they wanted something else. Then there were different methodes: You had numbers, letters, symbols, working with necklaces, working with ropes. Then a few years later they thought about fractions. If they had for example 3 breads and they were with 5 people they cut the first and the second bread in 3. The last piece of the second bread you do in 5 pieces. Than the last bread you also cut in 5 and you divided everything equally.
We are going to find out everything about how math started to exist and how it grew into the math of this. How the prehistoric people used it and for what.
Math started when people wanted to count the seasons. In the beginning they made stripes on stone. After a while there were too much stripes and they wanted something else. Then there were different methodes: You had numbers, letters, symbols, working with necklaces, working with ropes. Then a few years later they thought about fractions. If they had for example 3 breads and they were with 5 people they cut the first and the second bread in 3. The last piece of the second bread you do in 5 pieces. Than the last bread you also cut in 5 and you divided everything equally.
Video about first math
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Math started with numbers in prehistory. The hunter-gatherers used numbers similar to: 1, 2 and many. So they didn’t have numbers larger than 2. Some groups also had a calendar.
The history of mathematics can be divided in different groups of time and place:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/index.html
The history of mathematics can be divided in different groups of time and place:
- Prehistoric mathematics
- Babylonian mathematics
- Egyptian mathematics
- Greek mathematics
- Roman mathematics
- Mayan mathematics
- Chinese mathematics
- Indian mathematics
- Islamic mathematics
- Mediaeval European mathematics
- Renaissance mathematics
- 16th century
- Mathematics during the scientific revolution
- 17th century
- 18th century
- Modern mathematics
- 19th century
- 20th century
- 21st century
- Future of mathematics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/index.html
The years of different kind of math
Before 1000 BC[edit]
ca. 70,000 BC — South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with
scratched geometric patterns (see Blombos Cave). [1]
ca. 35,000 BC to 20,000 BC — Africa and France, earliest
known prehistoric attempts to quantify time. [2][3][4]
c. 20,000 BC — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: possibly the earliest reference
to prime numbers and Egyptian multiplication.
c. 3400 BC — Mesopotamia, the Sumerians invent the first numeral system, and
a system of weights and measures.
c. 3100 BC — Egypt, earliest known decimal system allows indefinite counting by
way of introducing new symbols. [5]
c. 2800 BC — Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent, earliest use of
decimal ratios in a uniform system of ancient weights and measures, the smallest
unit of measurement used is 1.704 millimetres and the smallest unit of mass used
is 28 grams.
2700 BC — Egypt, precision surveying.
2400 BC — Egypt, precise astronomical calendar, used even in the Middle
Ages for its mathematical regularity.
c. 2000 BC — Mesopotamia, the Babylonians use a base-60 positional numeral
system, and compute the first known approximate value of π at 3.125.
c. 2000 BC — Scotland, Carved Stone Balls exhibit a variety of symmetries
including all of the symmetries of Platonic solids.
1800 BC — Egypt, Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, findings volume of a frustum.
c. 1800 BC — Berlin Papyrus 6619 (Egypt, 19th dynasty) contains a quadratic
equation and its solution. [5]
1650 BC — Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, copy of a lost scroll from around 1850
BC, the scribe Ahmes presents one of the first known approximate values of π at
3.16, the first attempt at squaring the circle, earliest known use of a sort
of cotangent, and knowledge of solving first order linear equations.
1046 BC to 256 BC — China, Chou Pei Suan Ching, arithmetic and geometric
algorithms and proofs.
Our prehistoric ancestors would have had a general sensibility about amounts, and
would have instinctively known the difference between, say, one and two antelopes.
But the intellectual leap from the concrete idea of two things to the invention of a
symbol or word for the abstract idea of "two" took many ages to come about.
Babylonian Numerals
Sumerian mathematics
They were perhaps the first people to assign symbols to groups of objects in an attempt to
make the description of larger numbers easier. They moved from using separate tokens or
symbols to represent sheaves of wheat, jars of oil, etc, to the more abstract use of a symbol
for specific numbers of anything. Starting as early as the 4th millennium BCE, they began
using a small clay cone to represent one, a clay ball for ten, and a large cone for sixty. Over
the course of the third millennium, these objects were replaced by cuneiform equivalents so
that numbers could be written with the same stylus that was being used for the words in the
text. A rudimentary model of the abacus was probably in use in Sumeria from as early as
2700 - 2300 BCE.
ca. 70,000 BC — South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with
scratched geometric patterns (see Blombos Cave). [1]
ca. 35,000 BC to 20,000 BC — Africa and France, earliest
known prehistoric attempts to quantify time. [2][3][4]
c. 20,000 BC — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: possibly the earliest reference
to prime numbers and Egyptian multiplication.
c. 3400 BC — Mesopotamia, the Sumerians invent the first numeral system, and
a system of weights and measures.
c. 3100 BC — Egypt, earliest known decimal system allows indefinite counting by
way of introducing new symbols. [5]
c. 2800 BC — Indus Valley Civilization on the Indian subcontinent, earliest use of
decimal ratios in a uniform system of ancient weights and measures, the smallest
unit of measurement used is 1.704 millimetres and the smallest unit of mass used
is 28 grams.
2700 BC — Egypt, precision surveying.
2400 BC — Egypt, precise astronomical calendar, used even in the Middle
Ages for its mathematical regularity.
c. 2000 BC — Mesopotamia, the Babylonians use a base-60 positional numeral
system, and compute the first known approximate value of π at 3.125.
c. 2000 BC — Scotland, Carved Stone Balls exhibit a variety of symmetries
including all of the symmetries of Platonic solids.
1800 BC — Egypt, Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, findings volume of a frustum.
c. 1800 BC — Berlin Papyrus 6619 (Egypt, 19th dynasty) contains a quadratic
equation and its solution. [5]
1650 BC — Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, copy of a lost scroll from around 1850
BC, the scribe Ahmes presents one of the first known approximate values of π at
3.16, the first attempt at squaring the circle, earliest known use of a sort
of cotangent, and knowledge of solving first order linear equations.
1046 BC to 256 BC — China, Chou Pei Suan Ching, arithmetic and geometric
algorithms and proofs.
Our prehistoric ancestors would have had a general sensibility about amounts, and
would have instinctively known the difference between, say, one and two antelopes.
But the intellectual leap from the concrete idea of two things to the invention of a
symbol or word for the abstract idea of "two" took many ages to come about.
Babylonian Numerals
Sumerian mathematics
They were perhaps the first people to assign symbols to groups of objects in an attempt to
make the description of larger numbers easier. They moved from using separate tokens or
symbols to represent sheaves of wheat, jars of oil, etc, to the more abstract use of a symbol
for specific numbers of anything. Starting as early as the 4th millennium BCE, they began
using a small clay cone to represent one, a clay ball for ten, and a large cone for sixty. Over
the course of the third millennium, these objects were replaced by cuneiform equivalents so
that numbers could be written with the same stylus that was being used for the words in the
text. A rudimentary model of the abacus was probably in use in Sumeria from as early as
2700 - 2300 BCE.
Different methodes
You had different methodes for using numbers. You had for example different shapes of rocks. A circle counted for 5, a square for 10 and a rectangled shape counted for 1. You had also different shapes. And they used the nature for counting. A bird was five, flowers were 10 and so on. Later they came up with the numbers like we have them now. Above you can see a clip about the first math
Pethagorean theorem
We found something about the Pythagorean theory. He found out that a squared plus b squared is c squared, which is not always true. It is only true when a and b are adjacent edges. So it should be adjacent edge2 + adjacent edge2 = hypothenuse2.
Our plan
We wanted to do an research about how much people know about Math, how it started and there knowledge.
Here is our research
Here is our research
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We hoped you liked our research!
Conclusion
We think it was an enjoyable project and we learned a lot from it. We worked with people that we have never worked with before and we are looking forward to do more projects like these!
Comparison
When we looked at the projects from the other school we saw some differences.
- We saw that they did it about mathematicians and we did the project about how math started. It is really interesting to see what kind of differences you come across then. And it is also nice to learn about the different sides of ''Math in History''.
- We saw that there was a difference in how deep everyone went. We went less deep than Pawar Public Math Contributors.
Reflection
At the end we think we could have done our project better. We planned to do it different and we were a little bit in a hurry. But we also know that you can not make your project perfect. We actually could have had way more information if we had more time. Our teamwork was also not perfect. Some people did a lot more than others. But after all we are happy with the result.