Answer the following questions about Pi:

1. What is the history of Pi?

2. Who discovered it?

3. When was it discovered?

4. Where was it discovered?

5. What type of number is Pi?

6. Find some web sites with interactive models showing Pi.

Who is Archimedes?

What problem did he solve for the King?

What other interesting and important things did Archimedes do for civilization?

What is 0 divided by 0? 0/0? 0 out of 0?

 

State a real-life situation where 0 divided by 0 will come out to 0.

 

State a real-life situation where 0 divided by 0 will come out to 1.

 

State a real-life situation where 0 divided by 0 will come out to indeterminable.

What is the highest number named?

How did it get its name?

 

How many different systems are there for numbers larger than a million? Name all the places.

What would it look like if we combined our customary (American) measurement system with the metric system?

 

          millimeter

          centimeter

  inches

          decimeter

  feet

  yard

          meter

          decameter

          hectometer

          kilometer

  mile

 

What is the conversion factor (or function) to get from each customary measurement to the closest metric measurement?