History and math. Нand in hand. Book 1. Ancient World. 50 mathematical tasks for students based on historical events. Ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt and Persia

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Dmitry Moskovets. History and math. Нand in hand. Book 1. Ancient World. 50 mathematical tasks for students based on historical events. Ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt and Persia

Introduction

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Persia

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Solutions

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Persia

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Topics

Afterword

List of historical personalities

List of the cities connected with the mentioned events

List of terms

List of used sources

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Let’s remember the tasks that we all had at school. Sometimes they were interesting, sometimes tedious. Someone was always travelling from point A to point B. Why? There was no answer. Still, they always reached their destination. Time flew, and we always forgot about this brave traveller. The purpose of the book and the tasks inside is to make students remember such travellers, and, while doing mathematics, also learn about history.

Some of the characters are fictional, but the larger part really existed and left a mark in history (their names can be found on the list at the end of the book).

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Calculate how many laps one needs to make around the Great Pyramid of Giza to run a marathon distance of 42 km (see more about the marathon distance in task G. 10). The length of the pyramid’s side is 440 royal cubits6.

E.6. On a trip along the river Nile

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