Printables for Mathematicians Are People Too

Mathematician Timeline

These files contain timeline figures for each of the 15 mathematicians featured in Mathematicians Are People, Too. Cut them out and affix them to your own timeline. Each mathematician's name and dates are included below his or her image.

Mathematicians are People, Too Timeline Figures page 1 of 2

Timeline figures for the first nine mathematicians.

Mathematicians are People, Too Timeline Figures page 2 of 2

Timeline figures for the remaining 6 mathematicians.

Thales

READING -- Exerpts from String, Straightedge, and Shadow

Two chapters about Thales from this classic living book about geometry. Illustrations are included!

PRINTABLE -- Thales Notebooking Pages Plus Copywork

A set of six different Thales notebooking pages plus one cursive copywork page with a quote by Thales, "A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. "

READING--Excerpt from AIMS Historical Connections in Mathematics Volume 2

This excerpt includes the section on Thales. There is a large image of his face, background notes, and activities related to Thales. Unfortunately this is not available to print. You can only read the material.

Pythagoras

READING -- BEFORE THE TIME OF CHRIST

from Stories of the Great Scientists by Charles R. Gibson

PRINTABLE -- Pythagoras Notebooking Pages

A set of many pages featuring Pythagoras himself as well as the math he studied.

ACTIVITY --Hands-on Activity with Platonic Polyhedra (3D Shapes)

This entry from my blog will walk you through a supplemental activity you may want to do with Pythagoras. The Platonic Solids were actually discovered by the Pythagoreans. And they are mentioned in the chapter on Pythagoras.

READING -- Pythagoras Chapter from Mathematicians Are People, Too

Here's the full Pythagoras chapter from Mathematicians Are People, Too.

READING--Excerpt from AIMS Historical Connections in Mathematics Volume 1

This excerpt includes the section on Pythagoras . There is a large image of his face, background notes, and printable activities related to Pythagoras. Unfortunately this is not available to print. You can only read the material.

Archimedes

287-212 B.C.

READING --ARCHIMEDES

A chapter from a book in the public domain -- Statemen and Sages by Charles Horne

READING -- "EUREKA!"

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Delightfully retold!

IMAGES -- Pictures of Archimedes

Lots of pictures

PRINTABLE -- Archimedes Notebooking Page

This page features a full color image of Archimedes (an artist's rendition) plus lined areas for filling in facts about the mathematician.

PRINTABLE -- Archimedes Notebooking Pages

A set of seven different pages with some black and white and some color images.

PRINTABLE -- Archimedes Quotations Cursive Copywork

Two quotations by Archimedes presented on copywork pages.
1. There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics."
2. ""Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

PRINTABLE -- Pi Notebooking Pages

A few choices of layout and style, all about mathematical Pi.

READING--Excerpt from AIMS Historical Connections in Mathematics Volume 2

This preview excerpt includes the section on Archimedes . There is a large image of his face, background notes, and activities related to Archimedes. Unfortunately this is not available to print. You can only read the material.

Hypatia

PRINTABLE -- Hypatia Notebooking Pages

A set notebooking pages with different styles to choose from.

PRINTABLE -- Hypatia Quotations Cursive Copywork Pages

Two quotations by Hypatia written in cursive to be copied.
1. "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. "
2. "To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those things that lie beyond."

John Napier

PRINTABLE -- John Napier Notebooking Pages

A set of pages with many styles to choose from. The images are black and white and include both the portrait of Napier (seen here) as well as his logarithmic rods.

PRINTABLE -- John Napier Quotation Cursive Copywork

Originally in Latin from the opening of Napier's work, Descriptio this copywork features a rhyming ditty,
"The use of this book is quite large, my dear friend
No matter how modest it looks,
You study it carefully and find that it gives
As much as a thousand big books. "

Galileo Galilei

(1564-1642)

READING -- GALILEO

A chapter from Famous Men of Modern Times by John H. Haaren .

READING -- GALILEO AND THE LAMPS

from Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

READING--GALILEO AND THE WONDERS OF THE TELESCOPE

from Children's Stories of the Great Scientists by Henrietta Christian Wright

PRINTABLE -- Galileo Notebooking Page

A set of three pages, each in a different style. All feature black and white drawings of Galileo.

Blaise Pascal

1623-1662

PRINTABLE --Blaise Pascal Notebooking Pages

Six different styles to choose from in this set.

PRINTABLE -- Cursive Copywork of Blaise Pascal Quotations

Some marvelously profound quotes about math and about faith in Jesus are included in these cursive copywork pages.

Examples:
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. "

"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus"."

Each page includes an image of Pascal.

PRINTABLE --Pascal's Pumpkins

Pascal's Pumpkins encourages students to look for patterns in Pascal's Triangle. The handout develops awareness of this important mathematical pattern through this timely seasonal activity. Students who take higher math courses will meet Pascal again in many different applications, including probability. This handout is an outgrowth of the Rutgers Universiy Discrete Math Institute.

Go Figure (Living Math Book) Book Review

This book review page includes two free math notebooking pages, one of which is Pascal's Triangle.

PRINTABLE --Printable Pascal's Triangles

Five different printable versions of Pascal's Triangle plus a lesson plan for using them.

READING -- Thank You, Blaise Pascal

It may seem unlikely, but this is a post about Pascal on John Piper's Desiring God website. If you had any doubts about Pascal's Christian faith, this article will resolve them.

Issac Newton

READING -- NEWTON AND THE FINDING OF THE WORLD SECRET, 1642-1727

from Children's Stories of the Great Scientists by Henrietta Christian Wright

READING -- SIR ISAAC NEWTON AND THE APPLE

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

READING -- SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Famous Men of Modern Times by John H. Haaren

READING -- SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)

Great Englishmen by M. B. Synge

Leonhard Euler

1707-1783

PRINTABLE -- Leonhard Euler Notebooking Pages

A set of six different styles of notebooking pages.

PRINTABLE -- Leonhard Euler Quotations Cursive Copywork

Two quotations for copywork:

1. Upon losing the use of his right eye, "Now I will have less distraction."

2. "Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate."

Joseph Louis Lagrange

1736-1813

READING -- Joseph Louis Lagrange Biography

This short PDF has a good overview of Lagrange's life and his contributions to mathematics

PRINTABLE -- Joseph Louis Lagrange Cursive Copywork

Two quotations by Lagrange written in cursive, suitable for copywork:

"As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited, but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection."

"If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with
mathematics."

PRINTABLE --Joseph Louis Lagrange Notebooking Pages

A set of six different styles with a black and white photograph of Lagrange.

Sophie Germain

1776-1831

PRINTABLE -- Sophie Germain Notebooking Pages

A set of six different styles, all with this same black and white image of Sophie Germain.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777-1855

PRINTABLE -- Gauss Notebooking Pages

A set of seven styles, all featuring the same black and white image of Gauss shown here.

PRINTABLE -- Gauss Cursive Copywork

Two pages, each featuring a different quotation by Gauss:

1. "If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

2. "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics".

Evariste Galois

1811-1832

PRINTABLE -- Galois Notebooking Pages

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PRINTABLE -- Galois Cursive Copywork Pages

I could only fine one good quotation by Galois, so there is only one page in this PDF: "Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties."

Emmy Noether

1882-1935

PRINTABLE -- Cursive Copywork Pages

I couldn't find any great quotations by Emmy Noether, but I did find some interesting things that were said about her.

I used a quote from her 1935 New York Times obituary written by Albert Einstein, "In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."

And I also used a quote that illustrates the common attitude towards women at her time, " I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear."

PRINTABLE -- Emmy Noether Notebooking Pages

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

1887-1920

PRINTABLE -- Ramanujan Quotation Cursive Copywork Page

A wonderful quote to show what math ultimately meant to Ramanujan, " An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God."

PRINTABLE -- Ramanujan Notebooking Pages

A set of six different styles that each includes a black and white image of this mathematician from India.

READING -- Kid Friendly Biography

From Pitara, a website designed just for children.