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Mathematician or Topic Historical Details Contributions Demos Enrichment

Ancient Mathematics
and the Number System

History of Number Bases PowerPoint on the theory of number bases Change of Base

Questions
(answers)

Al-Khwarismi Historical Details Contributions to Mathematics

PowerPoint demo solving quadratics

Student Problems and Enrichment
(answers)

Blaise Pascal Historical Details Introduction to probability theory

Power Point of Pascal's Triangle

Applying probability(answers)

Renee Descartes Historical Details Descartes' contributions to mathematics

Power Point of The Cartesian Plane

Excel demos of:

Questions
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SmartBoard ideas: (smartboard notebook file)