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Archimedes mathematician biography rubric

          Students apply Archimedes Principle in a real world challenge to build a boat out of cardboard to carry them across a pool or lake.

          Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician born in BC in Syracuse, Sicily..

          Quick Info

          Born
          287 BC
          Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
          Died
          212 BC
          Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
          Summary
          Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age.

          His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.

          Biography

          Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer.

          We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of his works, The Sandreckoner.

          Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer and astronomer from Syracuse.

        1. Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer and astronomer from Syracuse.
        2. Oral Report—Dress up as the person you have chosen.
        3. Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician born in BC in Syracuse, Sicily.
        4. Archimedes Greek philosopher/mathematician, commonly called “father of mathematics”.
        5. Teach your students about Archimedes with this nonfiction 8th Grade Fact File.

          6. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost. How our knowledge of Archimedes would be transformed if this lost work were ever found, or even extracts found in the writing of others.



          Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device n