Spelman College Hodgepodge
Calculus and Beyond
Math Trivia
Spelman College History
Math Riddles
100

Science Center Room 134 is also called this.

What is the NASA Auditorium?

100

This is the derivative of 5x-pi^4

What is 5?

100

Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi gave this digit to the West around 800 A.D.

What is ZERO?

100

In this year, Spelman College celebrated its 125th anniversary.

What is 2006?

100

Why did I divide sin by tan?

Just cos.

200

The Math Lab is located in this room.

What is TAPLEY 301?

200

This is the integral of e^(2x)

What is (1/2)e^(2x)?
200

This "sweet" holiday is celebrated on March 14.

What is Pi Day?

200

In this year, the name was officially changed to Spelman College

What is 1924?

200

Where do math teachers go on vacation?

To Times Square.

300

The Career Planning and Development Office is in this building.

What is the Milligan Building?

300

This rule allows us to evaluate a limit in indeterminate form by differentiating both the numerator and the denominator, and then finding the limit

What is L'Hopital's Rule?

300

365 is equal to the sum of the squares of these three consecutive numbers

What are 10, 11, and 12?

300

This woman was elected as the first black woman president of the College in 1987

Who is Johnnetta Cole?

300

Why did the mutually exclusive events break up?

They had nothing in common.

400

This is the number of women faculty currently teaching in the Spelman College Mathematics Department.

What is eight (Brown, Cameron, Frost, Johnson, Johnson, Nu'Man, Olubummo, Stephens, Wilson)?

400

This method is used to integrate by decomposing a rational function into a sum of smaller rational expressions.

What is partial fraction decomposition?

400

These are the only two letters not in any of the numbers when written as words.

What are J and K?

400

This former First Lady delivered the 2011 commencement address at Spelman College

Who is Michelle Obama?

400

Where can you buy a ruler that is 3 feet long?

At a yard sale.

500

This is the formal name of the Science Center.

What is the Albro-Falconer-Manley Science Center?

500

The four properties that must hold to be a group.

What are closure, associativity, identity, and inverse?

500

All odd numbers have this letter in them.

What is the letter e?

500

This Spelman alumna was the first African American female major-party gubernatorial (GA) nominee in the U.S.

Who is Stacey Abrams?

500

There are several books on a bookshelf.  If one book is 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

9 books.

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