Activity: Bunt Chapter 1, Part 1

In this activity we will seek to understand the method of false position. 

In this activity we explore the number system of the ancient Babylonians.

We look at some problems the Ancient Babylonians solved.

We begin to explore Ancient Greek thinking about geometry.

In this activity we play a game of “what if” and see a reason that the ancient Greeks might have wanted every number to be rational.

In this activity we explore the three different means of the ancient Greeks.

In this activity we will compute some basic quadratures.

We investigate solutions to the Problems of Antiquity.

We prove some propositions from Euclid’s Elements.

In this activity we will prove the most famous theorem of all.

In this activity we investigate unique factorization theorems.

In this activity we will give two proofs of Heron’s formula.

In this activity we will solve second and third degree equations.

In this activity we investigate a generalization of the binomial theorem and its connection to an approximation of \(\pi \).

In this activity we investigate some of the series that Leibniz investigated.

Here we see some topics that both Bernoulli and Euler were interested in.

We investigate Gauss’ first proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

In this activity we look at Cantor’s diagonal argument.

In this activity, we discuss how statements can be independent of axioms.