Name___________________________________

Mr. Penagos

Equations Assessment

1) Equations and Hieroglyphics

Archeologists have been studying an ancient culture for a few years.
They have found that people from this ancient culture had an
understanding of the four basic operations and number sense.
The researchers also made the following conclusions:
The symbol represented the number 1, represented 2 and
so on.
Number 10 represented courage
Number 1 represented nature.
Number 3 represented language
Number 2 represented wisdom
Number 7 represented love
Number 13 represented mathematics
The symbol represents the word of
The symbol represents the words is the
The archeologists also found a big hieroglyphic engraved in one of the
walls, followed by three strange hieroglyphic equations

( ) ( )

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Mr. Penagos

Equations Assessment

Task 1
Using the information provided, what was the numerical value of the
three main symbols in the equations (

, , )?

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Mr. Penagos

Equations Assessment

Task 2
Using your result from part 2. Decipher the meaning of the main

hieroglyphic.

Task 4
Create your own hieroglyphic equation, explain how it translates to
modern mathematical terms and solve the hieroglyphic equation. Note:
The higher the level of the equation, the higher score you will receive.

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Mr. Penagos

Equations Assessment

2) One of the tales from an ancient civilization talked about three

ancient kings from three different cities that ruled around the same
time. The ages of the kings were three consecutive integers. When the
civilization collapsed, the sum of the age of the oldest king and twice
the age of the youngest king was 164. Find the ages of the three kings
when the civilization collapsed.