Christmaths Quiz - Fun Math Challenges for the Holidays

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Engage in a Christmaths Quiz with rounds featuring math-themed challenges and trivia related to Christmas and mathematicians. Test your knowledge and skills in a festive and educational way. From matching mathematicians to creating snowflakes, there's something for everyone to enjoy during the holiday season.

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Christmaths Quiz

Round 1: Match the Mathematicians A Maryam Mirzakhani (1970 - ) Won the fields medal in mathematics this year for work on Reimann surfaces. b Dr Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890 1980) Researched set theory in America in the 1940s. C Terry Tao (1975 - ) Won the fields medal in 2006 for work on sequences of primes D Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) Created the Bombe device to decode German wartime codes. E Dame Amry Lucy Cartwright (1900 1998) Was first to analyse a dynamic system with chaos. 3 2 1 photo 4 5

Round 2: Hark the herald angles sing 1 2 3 Christmas Carols Clipart 4 5

Round 3: Christmaths trivia 1 2 3 4 5 The number of lords a leaping multiplied by the number of maids a milking in the 12 days of Christmas. Die Hard opened on limited release in 21 cinemas in 1988, earning $601,851 what was the mean amount taken per cinema? If Santa needs 3 carrots per reindeer how many does he have to buy? What is the name of the shape created at the centre of an 8 pointed star. The number of spirits in a Christmas Carol multiplied by the year the Muppets Christmas Carol came out.

Round 4: Santa says 3 An angle measuring less than 90 degrees. A right angles is .. degrees 2 1 A triangle in which all sides and angles are different. A regular 3D shape with 4 triangular sides. 4 The first letters of each word spells out SANTA A section of a curve 5

Round 5: Snowflakes Medium Blunt / Blunt Scissors Green Handle 5" You have 1 sheet of A4 paper and a pair of scissors to make a snowflake. Points will be awarded out of 5. Consideration will be given to how mathematically interesting they are and originality

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Round 1: Match the Mathematicians A Maryam Mirzakhani (1970 - ) Won the fields medal in mathematics this year for work on Reimann surfaces. b Dr Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890 1980) Researched set theory in America in the 1940s. C Terry Tao (1975 - ) Won the fields medal in 2006 for work on sequences of primes D Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) Created the Bombe device to decode German wartime codes. E Dame Amry Lucy Cartwright (1900 1998) Was first to analyse a dynamic system with chaos. 3 2 1 photo A B E 4 5 D C

Round 2: Hark the herald angles sing Opposite 1 2 3 Corresponding Allied Christmas Carols Clipart 4 5 Alternate Corresponding

Round 3: Christmaths trivia 1 2 3 4 5 The number of lords a leaping multiplied by the number of maids a milking in the 12 days of Christmas. 10 x 8 = 80 Die Hard opened on limited release in 21 cinemas in 1988, earning $601,851 what was the mean amount taken per cinema?601851 21=28659.57 or 601860 If Santa needs 3 carrots per reindeer how many does he have to buy? 8 x 3 = 24 What is the name of the shape created at the centre of an 8 pointed star. Octagon The number of spirits in a Christmas Carol multiplied by the year the Muppets Christmas Carol came out. 1992 x 3 = 5976 or 3 x 92 = 276