Questions on The Number Zero

Try to answer as many of these answers as you can before you listen.
A Match the labels in the pink rows to the pictures in the blue rows 1 2 3 4

50 + 50 = 100
nil 5 007 6 witch 7 Fibonacci 8

Samoa

Adding with zeros

Adding with columns

numerals

B Put the times in the pink row in the correct order in the blue row, going from left to right, from oldest to newest (One has already been done for you) CE> 12 century
TH

The year 2001

CE>

824 CE

500 BCE

16th century

<BCE

876 CE

C Read the questions below. See if you can answer some of them before you listen. Listening: Lecture The Most Important Number Instructions: Read the questions below. See if you can answer some of them before you listen. Topic: The Number (1)__________

Sub-topics: a. Name b. (2)__________ c. Importance a. Four names: 1. O As in the spy, James Bond, also known as (3) __________ Lecturers telephone number= (4)__________ 2. Nil As in sports such as(5) __________, Score in 2001 match between Australia and American Samoa: (6) __________ __________! 3. (7) __________ Often used to describe large numbers of zeros e.g. one (8) __________ = 1 with six (9) __________ after it. 4. The word zero comes originally from the (10) __________ word: __________. b. History: First mentioned in India in the year (11)__________ __________ Empty circle, 0, first used in Gwalior, India in 876 (12)__________, about (13)__________ years ago Idea of zero used in in Arabia from about(14) __________ __________ Uses of zero explained by (15) __________ __________ who also invented algebra, in city of (16) _______, which was a very advanced centre of(17) __________. Three (18) __________ years later, Italian mathematician, Fibonacci, brought idea of (19)__________ back to Italy. Europeans used (20)__________ numerals at that time. Many Europeans thought the
(21)

__________ -__________ number system was evil or made it (22)__________ to cheat!

Zero and Indian-Arabic numbers not used by ordinary people in Europe until (23)__________ hundreds! c. Importance of Zero Good for handling numbers of (24) __________ sizes. Because our system of (25)__________ placement depends on it. Indian-Arabic number system better than (26)__________ numerals, which are hard to calculate with. D

Now listen and check / complete your answers