Year 8
Year 8
Goldbach's conjecture
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will learn about a famous unsolved maths problem called Goldbach's conjecture.
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5 Questions
Q1.
Fill the gap: Every even integer greater than two can be written as the sum of two __________ integers.
perfect
small
troublesome
Q2.
Goldbach wrote his conjecture in a letter. Who was the letter to?
His parent
His wife
Lohar Collatz
Q3.
What was Mr Golbach's first name?
Antoni
Lohar
Xavier
Q4.
True or false: Goldbach's conjecture is proven to be true.
True
Q5.
Write 7 as a sum of two prime numbers.
2 + 2 + 3
4 + 3
6 + 1