The next contest will be taking place Wednesday April 2nd, 2014. The next interactive question will be Tower of Hanoi which you can practice now on the games page http://www.brocku.ca/caribou/games/ There is also a history question about Carl Friedrich Gauss. You may read about him on the history page - http://www.brocku.ca/caribou/public/history_en.php
Post three interesting facts about Gauss.
I learned that:
ReplyDelete~Carl Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist
~He was born on April 30 1777 in Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire.
~A famous story tells that in primary school, after the young Gauss misbehaved, his teacher, J.G. Büttner, gave him the task of adding a list of integers from 1 to 100, in arithmetic progression. The young Gauss apparently produced the correct answer within seconds, to the astonishment of his teacher and his assistant Martin Bartels.
~Mackenzie
try 6 disks! So hard!
ReplyDelete~Mack
I learned that-
ReplyDelete1. Carl Gauss' full name was Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss.
2. He is sometimes referred as 'The Prince of Mathematicians.'
3. His mother was illiterate.
-Aidan the Math Geek.