Mathematics for the Millennium

Internet Challenge

Can you set an internet challenge which involves mathematics? Best entries will be featured on the Mathematics web site. Send your entries to Mary Carrigan, Maths Adviser, at mary.carrigan@westsussex.gov.uk

Choose your answers and then press the button at the bottom of the page to find out how well you did!

History:

  1. Tudors - what year did the tudor period start?
  2. When did Henry VIII become king?
  3. How many wives did Henry VIII behead?
  4. How many months did it take Sir Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe?
  5. How long ago did Elizabeth I die?

Geography:

  1. How many named layers does planet earth have?
  2. Approximately how old is the Earth?
  3. How old is the earth written in standard form?
  4. What area do the tributaries of the Amazon take up?
  5. What percentage of the world's river water flows through the Amazon?
  6. Approximately when did dinosaurs first walk on the earth?
  7. How long did they live on earth?
  8. What is the ratio of the number of years humans have been on earth compared to dinosaurs?

Science:

  1. How many elements are there in the periodic table?
  2. Which elements have the atomic weight of 50 and 79?
  3. How many different types of Big Cats are there in the wild?
  4. What is needed for photosynthesis to occur?
  5. What two products come from photosynthesis?

English:

  1. How old was William Shakespeare when he died?
  2. How many plays did he write?
  3. What type of plays did he write?

Mathematics:

  1. Solve the following: Quarante-six + trente-deux
  2. How long ago was pythagoras alive?
  3. Who was the first recorded female mathematician? (clue: she died in the year 415)

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