Badi'al-Zaman Abū al-'Izz Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206) was aMuslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar (current Cizre), who lived during the ...
Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Nafis, was an Arab physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of ...
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (965 in Basra – c. 1040 in Cairo) was a prominent scientist and polymath from the ‘Golden Age’ of Muslim civilization. He is ...
One of the first Directors of the House of Wisdom in Bagdad in the early 9th Century was an outstanding Muslim mathematician called Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi. He oversaw the translation of ...
What is a “Multiple” ? The multiples of a number are what you get when you multiply it by other numbers (such as if you multiply it by 1,2,3,4,5, etc). Just like the multiplication table. Here are some examples: The multiples of 3 are: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, etc … The multiples [ Read More ]
The greatest common factor of two or more numbers is the largest number that divides evenly into each of the numbers. There are two ways to find the greatest common factor. First method is to list all of the factors of each number, then list the common factors and choose the largest one. Example: Find [ Read More ]
Prime Numbers A Prime Number is a whole number greater than one and can be divided evenly only by 1 or itself. Let me explain through the following example … Example: 6 is not prime because it can be divided evenly by 2, 3 and 6 Like this: or divided into 2 groups divided into 3 [ Read More ]
Can you answer questions like “A man was carrying balloons but the wind blew 4 away. He has 6 balloons left. How many did he start with?” Get some practice here:
Can you answer questions like “A man was carrying balloons but the wind blew 4 away. He has 6 balloons left. How many did he start with?” Get some practice here:
Can you answer questions like “A man was carrying balloons but the wind blew 4 away. He has 6 balloons left. How many did he start with?” Get some practice here:
A section (or slice) through a cone. By taking different slices through a cone you can create a circle, an ellipse, a parabola or a hyperbola
Two objects are CONGRUENT if they have the same size and shape. The top pair of turtles are Congruent, they have the same shape and size, whereas the lower pair of turtles are NOT congruent, they do have the same shape, but they are not the same size.
A solid (3-dimensional) object that has a circular base and one vertex
Two or more circles which have the same center point
