I.E.S. EL PALMERAL
VERA- ALMERÍA
Vera a través del tiempo Matemáticas 2º E.S.O. Bilingüe
PRIMER TRIMESTRE
2009/10
REMEDIOS PINO GUERRERO
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1. Answer the following questions: Look at the Vera Town Hall web. a) Vera has been populated since the Neolithic. How many years ago? Years 400 16
Is it a natural number?
b) In which century did people from Cartago find Baria? How many centuries ago?
c) Sierra de Almagrera´s mining started in the Bronze Age. How many years ago did mining in Sierra de Almagrera start? Is it a multiple of 20? Years x11 32
d) The Vera inhabitants joined together in “Cerro del Espíritu Santo”, in the same century as Vera (a Muslim city) which is bordered with Lorca (a Christian city). In which century did this happen? How many centuries ago?
e) In which year did Vera´s Muslim and Lorca´s Christian fight in “Alporchones” battle? Add all the digits =¿ 12
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f) In which year did “Los Reyes Católicos” name Vera with the title “Very noble and very loyal city”? 2 x (thousand units) + (3 x units – tens):3 – hundreds =
g) When did a violent earthquake change Vera´s location from “Cerro del Espíritu Santo” to it´s current location? Is the following division year between day exact?
Year day
Is it exact now?
3xYear day
h) How many houses were there in Vera when the earthquake took place? (Number of houses : 4 + 27) : 11 – (Number of houses – 250) =
i) How many people died in the earthquake? 2 x (dead people : 15 + 3) + ( 100 – dead people) : 5 =
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j) When did the next earthquake take place? How many years went by between earthquakes?
k) In which year did the inhabitants start to build the new city? 2 x ( Year : 40 – 2 x 25 ) + 3 x ( add all the digits ) =
l) How many towers were there in this city? 35x(Number of towers:4x(-15)+Number of towersx4)–(2x3–Number of towers)x4=
m) How many inhabitants was this city built for? Is it a 12 multiple? And what about a 15 multiple?
n) In which year were Muslims forced to be baptized and quit their Moorish tradition? Units x 3 – tens + hundreds x 4 – thousand units =
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o) In which year did Muslims of a village nearby to Vera rebel and did Vera´s inhabitants ask Lorca for help? 3 + 2 x ( Year : 3 – 250 x 2 ) – ( 2 – Year ) + ( Year + 1 ) : (-5) =
p) On which day of October was “San Cleofás” named patron saint of Vera city? This day is the same day that the Muslim army left Vera. What are three multiples and three divisors of the day? Multiples: Divisors:
q) On which day of June of 1776 were the by-laws of Vera approved? 7 x ( day + 2 – day x 4 ) – 2 x ( 5 – day x day : 2 + 4 x ( day + 3)) =
r) In the second half of which century did Vera have an economic resurges? Is it a prime number?
s) In which year did Vera begin to celebrate it´s own festival? Is it a prime number?
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2. Represent in a frequency table the population evolution in Vera in the last 10 years. Year
Number of inhabitants
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
a) Represent in a bar-line graph.
b) Which is the year with the most level of population? Is it the same than the mode?
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c) Say the mean of population in the last 10 years.
d) And which is the median?
e) Represent in a pie chart the population evolution in the following years 20002004- 2008.
f) Group the population in four intervals and represent bar chart.
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VOCABULARY
Town Hall: Ayuntamiento
To force: obligar
Populated: poblado
To baptize: bautizar
Neolithic: Neolítico
To quit: abandonar
Century: siglo
Nearby: cercano
Find (to found): fundar
To rebel: sublevarse
Mining: explotación
Army: ejército
Bronze Age: Edad de Bronce
By-laws: estatutos
Inhabitant: habitante
To aprove: aprobar
To joing together: unirse
Festival: feria
Muslim: musulmán
Frequency table: tabla de
Border: frontera
frecuencias
To fight: luchar
Bar-line graph: diagrama de barras
Battle: batalla
Bar chart: histograma
Loyal: leal
Mode: moda
Earthquake: terremoto
Mean: media
Location: ubicación
Median: mediana
Current: actual
Pie chart: diagrama de sectores
Take place: tuvo lugar
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