Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Math Extra Credit

Mathematician Report Extra Credit: up to 10 points

This report MUST be typed and MUST have references. Students are to research a mathematician and answer the following 5 Questions. Each question needs to be numbered on the report.
1) Who is the mathematician?
2) When was he/she born?
3) Where (state, country) were they born and where did they study mathematics?
4) What did this person discover/invent in mathematics? (This answer requires more than 1 sentence)
5) Why was this discovery important to mathematics or society? (This answer requires the most thought and more than 2 sentences
One report can be completed for the remaining three advisories

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