Women in Math
An American mathematician and YouTuber who is known for their video on Hexaflexagons.
Who is Vi Hart?
a2+b2=c2
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the closest integer to −7π.
What is -22?
11 x 12
What is 132?
A researcher asks a study participant to tap their finger during an fMRI scan and observes activity in 10 different brain regions. If the activity in each region is compared to the activity in every other region, this many comparisons will be made.
What is 45 comparisons?
A German mathematician known for her work in abstract algebra and theoretical physics. One theorem that she wrote is now known as “Noether’s Theorem”.
Who is Emmy Noether?
6.022 × 10²³
Who is Avogadro?
This is the absolute difference between the mean and median of the first 100 positive integers.
What is 0?
182
What is 324?
In an effort to spread “high-fiving cheer” Ronnie and Ruth decided they would each high five 2 people and ask each person they high five to high five 2 additional people (and ask each of them to do the same). After 4 cycles like this, this many high fives will be exchanged.
What is 60 high fives?
eix = cosx + isinx
Who is Euler?
There is a unique time between 2 and 3 o’clock at which the minute and hour hands of a standard 12-hour clock form an angle of 180 degrees. This is how many hours after 2 o’clock this time is.
684 x 7
What is 4788?
At Tri-City Middle School, half of the 472 enrolled students are taking algebra. One-fifth of the students not taking algebra are taking geometry, and each of the remaining students is taking pre-algebra.
This is the number of students enrolled at Tri-City Middle school taking pre-algebra, rounded to the nearest whole number.
What is 189 students?
An American mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of the first NASA crewed spaceflight. She was featured in the movie "Hidden Figures."
Who is Katherine Johnson?
An ____ group is a group whose binary operation closed, associative, invertible, unital, and commutative.
Who is Niels Henrik Abel?
If a, b and c are all positive integers greater than 1 for which a + ab + abc = 415, this is the value of c.
What is 40?
28 x 29
According to the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) standards, U.S. phone numbers contain a 3-digit area code, followed by a 3-digit exchange code and end in a 4-digit subscriber number. The first digit of both the area code and exchange code cannot be 0 or 1. This is the number of different combinations of area code and exchange code that are possible.
What is 6.4 × 105 combinations?
An English statistician who was also a pioneer in data visualization and is considered the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
A geometric coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of real numbers called coordinates.
e.g. (1, 3) or (-0.5, 10)
Who is Rene Descartes?
Dennis rolls three fair six-sided dice, yielding values of a, b and c. This is the expected value of |a – b| + |b – c| + |c − a|.
What is 35/6?
(78 x 15) / 6
What is 195?
Plato considered the High Composite Number 5040 to be an ideal number for dividing things because it is divisible by all the integers from 1 to 12 (excluding 11). This integer is less than 5040 with the same property.
What is 2520?