Math club trivia
1st!!
Mathematician who invented Euler's method
Who is Leonhard Euler?
Mr. Perez's elusive first name
Jorge
The first irrational number ever discovered
What is √2?
What NJML stands for
New Jersey Math League
The first civilization to use zero as a number
India
Classes that Mr. Perez teaches
AP Calc BC, Calc 3
A shape with 12 sides
What is a dodecahedron?
Name of the speaker
WONDERBOOM!
Mathematician whose teacher told him to add up the numbers from 1 to 100 in order to keep him occupied (it didn't work)
Gauss
Mr. Perez has a degree from...
Princeton University
The category of numbers that e belongs to (ex. complex, imaginary, etc)
What is an irrational number?
OR:
What is a transcendental number?
(this means it cannot be the root of a non-zero polynomial with rational coefficients)
The number of math club meetings that we have had this year
What is 20?
This mathematician invented an infinite series for pi, claiming that a goddess revealed it to him in a dream.
Ramanujan
Origin story of the seagull palm pal (extra points for what's in the seagull's beak)
Mr. Perez wanted a jumbo one from the boardwalk and his kid got him a tiny one
Extra points: French fry!
The decade that Pi Day was first celebrated in
What is the 1980s?
The number of years Mr. Perez has overseen the CHS math club (accuracy within 4 years)
What is 12?
This state nearly legalized pi = 4
Indiana
Mr. Perez's coolest kid's name
Theo
eiπ+1=?
What is 0?