MST - MID TERM QUIZ 1

A. ANSWER WHAT IS BEING ASKED:

1. Why do we need to study the history of Mathematics, Science

and Technology?

- We need to study their history so that we can easily

understand their origin and their importance into our lives.

2. What is the impact of the past events in history to our lives

today?
- It helps to develop a lot of invention now days and
people learned a lot from the past events that gives
them valuable ideas to develop inventions.

B. WRITE THE IMPACT OF THIS HISTORICAL EVENTS TO THE

PRESENT.

1. RENE DESCARTES devised the Cartesian

Coordinate System,

- The invention of Cartesian coordinates in the 17th century by René

Descartes revolutionized mathematics by providing the first
systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.