Mr Knox
Wootton Upper School
Maths Notation
History of Maths
Christmas Estimations
100
Mr Knox has A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, and Physics
But which subject did he also choose for Year 12 but drop before Year 13?
Chemistry
100
How many students attend Wootton Upper School according to ClassCharts?
830 Students
100
What is the name given to the horizontal bar used in fractions?
(a) Vinculant
(b) Vinculate
(c) Vinculum
(d) Vinculish
(c) Vinculum
100
In which century was most of the mathematical notation we use today invented?
The 16th century
Before then, mathematics was written out in words making mathematical discovery very difficult.
100
Residents of Liverpool eat more mince pies per person than residents of any other UK city.
How many do they eat on average each year?
On average, Liverpudlians eat 20 minces pies per person each year.
Almost twice as many as the average Brit, who has just under 12 mince pies per year.
200
Besides English, which language is Mr Knox most proficient in?
(a) German
(b) Italian
(c) French
(d) Spanish
(b) Italian
While knowing all four languages to varying degrees of fluency, Mr Knox took two semesters of Italian in University and continues to practice vocabulary daily and watch/listen to TV/music in Italian.
200
In what year was Wootton Upper School founded?
1975
200
What is the mathematical name for the division symbol, \div ?
(a) Oblique
(b) Obelus
(c) Obolus
(d) Obelisk
(b) Obelus
200
In which country were the Arabic numerals we use today invented?
India
200
By January 2022, how tall was the tallest ever snowman, in feet?
124ft. The snowman, named 'The Giant', was built in Austria in 2020. he was almost as tall as the 156ft tall Statue of Liberty (excluding the plinth she stands on)
300
Name any of the Top 5 songs from Mr Knox's Apple Replay (basically Spotify Wrapped)
1. Not Like Us
2. Like That
3. 3005
4. Misery Business
5. Zombie
300
What is the motto of Wootton Upper School (according to its Wikipedia page)?
The pursuit of excellence
300
The diagram below shows the circle theorem that an angle inscribed across a circle's diameter is always a right angle.
What is the name of this theorem?
(a) Talbot's Theorem
(b) Thomsen's Theorem
(c) Thales' Theorem
(d) Taylor's Theorem
(c) Thales' Theorem
(pronounced thay-leez)
300
Robert Recorde is a mathematician who is credited with inventing what?
(a) The Division Sign
(b) The Guiness Book of World Records
(c) The Equal Sign
(d) Fractions
(c) The Equal Sign
When writing his book, Robert Recorde wrote the phrase ‘is equal to’ more than 200 times. To make things sound less repetitive, he changed ‘is equal to’ to the equals sign we all use today.
300
In degrees Celsius, what is the highest temperature ever recorded at the North Pole?
13 degrees Celsius, when a freak storm in December 2015 briefly disrupted the North Pole's weather system
400
What is Mr Knox's favourite romcom of all time?
400
How many negative points has the entire school gotten collectively this week?
-532
400
What name is given to the shape below?
(a) Pentomino
(b) Z-Block
(c) Quintagon
(d) Octagon
(a) Pentonimo
A shape made by joining five equal squares together side-to-side.
There are 12 of them
400
Brahmagupta was an Indian mathematician and astronomer born in the year 598. What was his most notable contribution to mathematics?
(a) First to use the value of zero
(b) First to use x as a variable
(c) First to define what a prime number was
(d) First to use negative numbers
(a) First to use the value of zero
He was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero.
400
Globally, how many sets of Lego are sold every minute during the Christmas period?
1,680, which equates to 28 sets sold every second.
500
Mr Knox's top artist in his Apple Replay this year were The Vaccines.
But how long, in minutes, did he spend listening to them?
1,825 minutes (or about 30.4 hours)
500
How many positive points has the entire school gotten collectively this week?
10,513
500
Which of the following words are synonyms of describing an anticlockwise movement?
(a) Widdershins
(b) Deasil
(c) Anticounter-anticlockwise
(d) Sinistral
(a) Widdershins
500
What is the mathematical name given to the shape of Mr Knox's ring?
It is a 2D shape that can only be represented in 3 dimensions.
A möbius strip
500
On Christmas Day, an average British adult consumes the same amount of calories as how many chicken nuggets?
118