Mental Math
d/dx (e^x) = ?
What is e^x?
When and where Math Club meets
What is Thursdays at 5pm in Minard Classroom 112
a2+b2=c2
What is The Pythagorean Thereom?
2n + 1 will always be what kind of number
What is odd?
The number of witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials
What is none?
If an orange costs $4 and half an orange, how much does it cost to buy 4.5 oranges?
What is $36?
NASA uses techniques from this unlikely field to develope things like solar arrays and star shields to put on their satellites
What is origami?
The earliest form of mathematics to appear in history
What is counting?
The only even prime number
What is 2?
Names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Who are Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello?
2+3(12/2-18)+0(3.5487*785.0214)-1+1-1+1-2+1+1-1 = ?
What is -35?
The names of the current Math Club officers (there are 3)
Who are Hannah, Sam and Isabel?
This person was the first to be accredited for inventing calculus
Who is Isaac Newton
The number of faces on an Icosahedron
(Hint: Think of different types of dice)
What is 20?
Number of Jaws movies made
Bonus points if you name how many Jaws movies that Back To The Future joked there would be
What is 4
Bonus: What is 19
Minimum number of 6-packs needed to put "99 bottles of age appropriate beverages on the wall"
The name of at least one presenter Math Club has hosted this semester
Who is Dr. Friedrich Littman, Dr. Torin Greenwood, FAST Enterprises, NDSU Health (Vaccines)
The name of the largest finite number that resulted from MIT's "Big Number Duel" in 2007
What is Rayo's Number?
Using the axiom of choice, one can cut a ball into a finite number of pieces that can be so rearranged that one obtains two balls of the same size as the original ball.
What is the Banach–Tarspkai paradox?
Name the planets in our solar system
Bonus points if you can name them in order relative from the sun
What are: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Sum of the first 5 fibonacci numbers
If you included zero: What is 7?
If you started at 1: What is 12?
The names of 4 people currently in this room
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The famous equation behind Einstein's Theory of relativity is E=mc^2. What does the 'c' stand for?
What is the speed of light?
A continuous closed surface with only one side; formed from a rectangular strip by rotating one end 180 degrees and joining it with the other end.
What is a Mobius Strip?
The maximum number of points someone can achieve on Pac-Man
What is 3,333,360 points?