Math in Sports
This number determines the amount of hits a baseball player makes of their amount of bats.
What is a batting point average? (BPA)
This mathematical function can be defined as multiplying a number with all integers less than or equal to that number.
What is a factorial?
This is the number you get after adding the number of letters in “Adelphi Math Organization” to the number of current AMO E-Board members?
What is 27?
This is the term for a closed polygon containing 4 sides and 4 vertices enclosing 4 angles.
What is a quadrilateral?
This number refers to the amount of notes that would play in 4/4 scale by the following diagram. (Go to Slides)
What is 12?
This number refers to the amount of points earned in a “perfect game” in bowling… divided by the number of separate frames in a standard bowling game!
What is 30?
A modular function returns this value in division.
hat is the remainder?
Name any three math professors at Adelphi University.
Answer is dependent!
This is the area of a circle with diameter of 16 in terms of pi.
What is 64pi?
This name refers to a popular musical scale that contains five notes per octave.
What is the pentatonic scale?
A standard football stadium is this number of yards long… in scientific notation!
What is 1.2 x 10^2.
This artist developed number-based paint.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the number you get after you subtract the year Adelphi was founded by the number of dorm buildings.
What is 1889?
This is a quadrilateral whose four sides all have the same length and diagonals intersect each other at 90 degrees.
What is a rhombus?
This number refers to the amount of notes that would play in 4/4 scale by the following diagram: (Go to Slides)
What is 32?
If someone scores 10 baskets in basketball, and 5 of them were from the three-point line, this number refers to how many points they would earn.
What is 25?
This mathematical term is considered a foundational working tool in calculus and can be geometrically interpreted as the slope of the curve of a mathematical function.
What is the derivative?
Adding the three classroom numbers on this level of Earle Hall gives you this number.
What is 312?
This is the circumference of a circle (in terms of pi) whose area is equal to 225pi.
What is 30pi?
The number you get after taking the amount of rings from Ariana Grande’s hit song and multiplying it by the amount of miles Vanessa Carlton would walk to see you, tonight…in scientific notation.
What is 7 x 10^3?
If you squared 2 and subtracted 1 from that amount, that is the number associated with this golf term for how much over the par you would be.
What is triple bogey?
This number is a mathematical constant which is the implied base of a natural logarithm.
What is e (Euler’s number)?
Also 1000100 in binary, this is the percentage of female undergraduate students at Adelphi University.
What is 68?
This is the relationship between angles a and b and the measure of both angles respectively in this image of parallel lines cut by a transversal. (Go to Slides)
What are alternate interior angles and 40 degrees?
In decimal form, what is the number of white keys on a piano in one octave divided by the number of black keys on a piano in one octave?
What is 1.4?