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| 1) How do modern people learn mathematics? 2) How did the ancients get knowledge in mathematics? 3) What areas did the necessity of mathematics express itself? 4) What were the requirements of mathematics expressed in? 5) What cultures created the rudiments of mathematics? 6) Why did people develop similar mathematic ideas regardless of their isolation from each other? 7) How is sexagesimal numeral system used nowadays? 8) When did mathematics become to be considered as an organized science? 9) How did the Greeks affect the development of mathematics? 10) What is the most significant discovery that came from India? 11) What does the word «algebra» mean? 12) How far has mathematics progressed? 13) What way do modern mathematicians expand their extent of knowledge in? | A. The Indian mathematicians discovered the current ²Arabic numerals² numerical system. B. The Greeks diverged and began to delve into more theoretic and abstract ideas. C. We learned mathematics from books and teachers. D. The word "algebra" originates from a single word meaning "the reunion of broken parts''. E. The ancients developed mathematics through tedious trial and error. F. The need to accurately record transactions of goods and money forced the development of the early numeric notation. G. We derive the modern day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle. H. The necessity expressed itself in numerous areas: in agriculture, business, and industry. I. Modern mathematicians build their discoveries upon those ideas that have been handed down to them from mathematicians of the past. J. When civilization began to trade, a need to count arose. K. Mathematics as an organized science did not exist before the classical Greeks of the period from 600 to 300 BC entered upon the scene. L. Scientists believe that Mesopotamian/Babylonian, Greek, Indian, Arabic/Islamic and finally European/American cultural group directly affected the progression of mathematics. M. A ten-year-old child can easily master the mathematical exercises that ancient Babylonians could not even imagine. |
Сделайте краткое сообщение о развитии математики опираясь на текст урока и задания 5, 6.
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8. Заполните таблицу краткой информацией о каждом периоде в развитии математики, основываясь на данные Интернет ресурсов и предложенные критерии. (См. Текст 8 в разделе ²Supplementary Reading²)
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