Math Quiz

Many scholars agree that playing cards were invented by the Chinese in the 9th century. Some scholars say that the first “real” deck of printed cards was the 32-card Chinese domino deck that featured all 21 possible combinations of a pair of dice. The first cards were printed on paper, bone, and wood.

The Beetle is known for being a pretty compact, but cute, car. A trained group of climbers achieved a truly unbelievable world record when 57 of them climbed inside a single Volkswagen Beetle! They used up literally every inch of the cabin. Talk about a tight squeeze. Can you imagine?

Although mathematics is the cold and factual language of science and reason, sometimes it can seem quite magical. For instance, if you multiply 111,111,111 with 111,111,111, the amazing product is 12,345,678,987,654,321.