The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

8th - 9th Grade

8 Qs

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The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

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Mathematics

8th - 9th Grade

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Dolors Moll

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The Ancient Greek concept that music was the key to understanding "the fundamental interconnectedness of all thing in the universe" was called what?

Music

Pathos

Plato

Harmonia

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The number 0 has been a controversial number. True or false?

True

False

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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According to Plato's thoughts, what does the Spheres' theory mean?

The movement of the planets in the universe produces harmonies that only the Gods can hear.

The Spheres offer you power and wisdom

Was the result of Divine inspiration from a group of goddesses known as the Muses

Each planet is related to a musical note from a pentatonic scale

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Negative numbers were considered absurd...

only in the Ancient Greece

by the Arabian mathematicians

until their introduction by Gerolamo Cardano

even during the 19th century

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who were the Pythagoreans?

Merchants and bankers who used Pythagoras' theorem?

Mathematician-philosophers who were members of Pythagoras' school

Ancient Greeks who studied mathematics

People who discovered and proved the Pythagorean theorem

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which of the following is the best way to describe the Greek concept of "ethos"?

A guiding principle of understanding how music works

A system to identify dangerous thoughts

The importance of music in everyday life

How one treats oneself and others

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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What is a rational number?

A perfect number

The length of the diagonal of a square with side-length of 1

A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

A number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Plato believed that dangerous music was music that:

Encourage self-discipline

Wasn't from Greece

Deviated from the accepted norm

Could be heard from space