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1. What does it mean to "tessellate"?

http://www.quiltgallery.com/technique2.htm

 

2. Where was Sophie Germain born?

http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/germain.htm

 

3. When is National Metric Day?

http://www.ovnet.com/~jayp/trivia/science1.htm

 

4. What is the next number in the sequence: 748, 448, 256, 120, _____ ?

http://www.mcdougallittell.com/bt/09/0902.htm

 

5. Who was one of the first African American women to receive a doctorate in mathematics?

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/first_phds_text.html

 

6. What is the name of Eratosthenes' method of finding prime numbers?

http://www.math.utah.edu/history/eratosthenes.html

 

7. Who was M.C. Escher?

http://www.worldofescher.com/reading/

 

8. What is "origami"?

http://ole.net/ole/1996/lessons/middle/oragami/oragami.htm

 

9. What would be the maximum amount a person could win in one day on Jeopardy?

http://sasd.k12.pa.us/ProjectLessons/answer1.html

 

10. What mathematician was born on July 28?
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk./~history/Day_files/Now.html

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