ENRICHMENT 1:

Your task is to answer the following questions based on the figure provided. Goodluck!

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Questions:
1. How many heads of snakes are there in quadrant III?
Answer: There are _________ heads of snakes in quadrant III.
2. How many tails of snakes are there in quadrant III?
Answer: There are _________ tails of snakes in quadrant III.
3. How many ladders are found in quadrant IV?
Answer: There are _________ ladders in quadrant IV.
4. How many heads of snakes are there in quadrant II?
Answer: There are _________ heads of snakes in quadrant II.
5. If you will be bitten by Snake A, where will you be found after?
Answer: At point _________.
6. If you will be bitten by Snake B, where will you be found after?
Answer: At point _________.
7. If you will be bitten by Snake C, where will you be found after?
Answer: At point _________.
8. If you will be bitten by Snake D, where will you be found after?
Answer: At point _________.
9. If you will be bitten by Snake E, where will you be found after?
Answer: At point _________.
10. Which ladder will bring you to (-20,12)?
Answer: Ladder _________.
11. If you will climb ladder 2, you will be landing on to?
Answer: At point _________.
12. What is your initial point in climbing ladder 4?
Answer: At point _________.
13. If you will climb ladder 1, you will be landing on to?
Answer: At point _________.
14. What point will you be bitten by snake C?
Answer: At point _________.
15. If you will climb ladder 3, you will be landing on to?
Answer: At point _________.

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 ENRICHMENT 2: Phrase in Plane

Given the following figure, decode the names of mathematicians from the sets of ordered pair:

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 (0,8)  (11,-3)  (-3,-9)   (11,-3)   (-15,0)    (11,-3)  (1,10)  (0,-16)  (11,2)  (O,8)  (-11,-7)   (11,-3)   (1,10)
Example:

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 1. He was an Ionian philosopher and mathematician, born in sixth century BC in Samos. Most of the information
available today has been recorded a few centuries after his death and as a result, many of the available accounts
contradict each other. However, this much is certain that he was born to a merchant from Tyre and had studied
under various teachers since his early childhood. 

                   
(-17,-18) (-8,3) (-11,-7) (17,-7) (11,2) (19,0) (-11,-13) (0,8) (11,2) (1,10)

2. He was a great Greek mathematician. Although little is known about his early and personal life, he went on to
contribute greatly in the field of mathematics and came to known as the ‘Father of Geometry’, he is known to have
taught mathematics in Ancient Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy I. He wrote ‘Elements’, the most influential
mathematical works of all time, which served as the main textbook for teaching mathematics from its publication
until the late 19th or early 20th century. Elements aroused interest of the Western World and mathematicians
around the globe for over 2000 years. He used the ‘synthetic approach’ towards producing his theorems,
definitions and axioms. Apart from being a tutor at the Alexandria library, he coined and structured the different
elements of mathematics, such as Porisms, geometric systems, infinite values, factorizations, and the congruence
of shapes.

           
(11,-3) (9,13) (0,-16) (0,-8) (11,-12) (-15,0)

3. He was an outstanding ancient Greek mathematician, inventor, physicist, engineer and also an astronomer.
Although not much is known about his life, he is considered as one of the most eminent scientists and
mathematicians of the classical era. He established strong foundations in the field of mathematics, physics,
particularly in statics, hydrostatics and also explained the principle of the lever. In his lifetime, he made many
incredible inventions such as designing innovative machines, including screw pumps, compound pulleys and siege
machines. He is said to have anticipated modern calculus and analysis and derived a range of geometrical
theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, and the area under a parabola.  

                   
(11,2) (0,8) (0,-16) (17,-7) (11,-12) (9,-16) (11,-3) (-15,0) (11,-3) (1,10)

4. He was a French mathematician and physicist who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. A
multi-faceted personality, he was also a Christian philosopher, inventor, and writer. Born as the son of a talented
mathematician, he received his primary education from his father, who through his unorthodox curriculum, wanted
to ensure that his bright young son grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment. The boy started displaying
signs of brilliance at an early age and was regarded as a child prodigy. He was just 16 when he wrote a significant
treatise on the subject of projective geometry and started working on other serious mathematical concepts as
well. 

                         
(-6,-3) (0,-8) (11,2) (11,-12) (1,10) (11,-3)   (-17,-18) (11,2) (1,10) (0,-16) (11,2) (0,-8)

5. He was the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time for
the tremendous contributions he made to the field of pure mathematics. Many concepts of modern mathematics originated from
the works of this eminent mathematician whose works also spanned the fields of mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics and
astronomy. 

         
(11,-3) (9,13) (0,-8) (11,-3) (0,8)

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Answers Key:

Activity Card 2; Answers may vary.

Activity Card 3: TheMystery Phrase: Snakes and Ladder

Enrichment Card 1: 1. 5 2. 8 3. 5 4. 8 5. (-18,9)

6. (-12, -17) 7. (-5, 10) 8. (9, 7) 9. (10,-16) 10. 5
11. (18, -8) 12. (-10, - 15) 13. (17,12) 14. (8, 2) 15. (8, 19)

Enrichment Card 2: 1. Pythagoras 2. Euclid 3. Archimedes 4. Blaise Pascal 5. Euler

Assessment Card.

Pre – test 1. (11,2) 8. (15, -7) 15. (7, -10) 22. (9,13)
2. (-6,-3) 9. (11,-12) 16. (-11, - 13) 23. (3,2)
3. (0, -16) 10. (14, - 17) 17. (-16,- 18) 24. (12,18)
4. (-15,0) 11. (- 3,8) 18. (-17, -7) 25. (-6,16)
5. (11,-3) 12. (0.-8) 19. ( 0,8) 26. ( -8,3)
6. (-12,9) 13. (9,-16) 20. (1,10) 27. ( -17,18)
7. (17,0) 14. (- 3, -9) 21. (-11,-7)

Post – test 1. (-17,18) 8. (-17, -7) 15. (7, -10) 22. (3,2)
2. (-6,16) 9. (-11,-7) 16. (8, - 16) 23. (11,2)
3. (-12, 9) 10. (-17, - 18) 17. (14, - 17) 24. (9,13)
4. (-8,3) 11. (- 11,-13) 18. (11, -12) 25. (11,18)
5. (-15,0) 12. (0.-8) 19. ( 15,-7) 26. ( 0,8)
6. (-3,7) 13. (-3,-9) 20. (11,-3) 27. ( 1,10)
7. (-6,-3) 14. (0, -16) 21. (17,0)

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