Today we have been stretching our Finding Out muscles using the media to help us. Oxford Maths professor Marcus du Sautoy recently presented an excellent series on the history of maths for the BBC, The Story of Maths. Here are some of our findings from the first programme...
- Children studied maths thousands of years ago (Mollie)
- Egyptians used their bodies to measure (Aoife)
- Children worked on clay in mathematics(Adele)
- Egyptians used decimal numbers to record numbers (Danni)
- They used fractions to understand how to share out food fairly (Ella)
- Maths started from patterns! (Karam)
- The Egyptians were the first to recognise the seasons! (Kurun)
- The Egyptians were one of the first to use maths.(Harina)
- The River Nile was one of the birthplaces of maths!(Nadiyah)
- Pythagorus was a very famous mathematician! (Aarid)
- The Babalonions also enjoyed maths (Garry)
- They have there own ways working out hard maths sums. (Shyan)
- They used sheets of woven reeds to record maths.(Phoebe)
- They used maths to water there farms. (Sam)
- The Egyptians did maths 4000 years ago. (Ollie)
- They used reeds to make paper.(Tyler)
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