Cinematic Digits
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), what is the answer to everything?
42
In this movie, Matt Damon's character anonymously solves a complex problem on a chalkboard at MIT. Name the movie.
Good Will Hunting
This is the value of any non-zero number raised to the power of zero.
1
This is the only number in the English language whose letters are in alphabetical order.
forty
This lowercase letter represents the square root of negative one.
i
In The Matrix (1999), Thomas Anderson's hacker alias is made up of a one-digit number. What is it?
Neo (meaning One)
In Mean Girls, Cady joins the school math competition team. What is the team called?
The Mathletes
This mathematical constant, approximately 2.718, is the base of a natural logarithm.
Clue: It is a vowel.
e
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Seven (S-even)
What is the value of i^2?
-1
_______ Dalmations times the ______ Musketeers
303 (101 times 3)
In which 2016 movie did mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan help calculate the trajectory of a historic space mission?
Hidden Figures
If you fold a standard piece of paper in half 42 times, how tall would the stack be?
Bonus - why?
It would reach the moon (439, 804 km)
You have a 3-gallon jug and a 5-gallon jug. How can you measure out exactly 4 gallons?
Fill the 5, empty into the 3 leaving 2 gal. Empty the 3, pour the 2 in. Fill the 5 and pour into the 3 until full leaving 4 in the 5 gallon.
What is the name of the U-shaped curve that is the graph of a quadratic equation?
Parabola
Iron Man (Tony Stark) told his daughter, "I love you ______."
3000
This 2004 movie features The Mathletes competition where the winning answer is "The limit does not exist!"
Mean Girls
35-40 times
The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz said, "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." What is he talking about?
Bonus: What should he have said?
Pythagorean Theorem
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Right Triangle
This formula starting with "-b" is used to find the roots when a quadratic cannot be factored
Quadratic Formula
Padua High School in this film is actually Stadium High School in Tacoma
10 Things I Hate About You
This Pixar movie features a superhero dad complaining to his son, "Why did they change math? Math is math!"
The Incredibles 2
What is a number raised to the first power equal to?
The number itself.
Solve this algebraic equation for I:
9x - 7I>3(3x- 7U)
I <3 U
(a + bi) and (a-bi) are called this
Conjugates