Math in Pop Culture
Matt Damon plays a Harvard janitor who is also a natural genius in this 1997 classic.
What is Good Will Hunting?
This state is home to Griffith Observatory, The Golden Gate Bridge, and of course, Mathnasium HQ.
What is California?
This white-haired gentleman is the mind behind the Mathnasium Method.
Who is Larry (Martinek)?
The 1770s brought on a decline in tea consumption in favor of coffee in the U.S., sparked by this famous historical protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The average adult elephant has about 3 to 6 of these units of measurement.
What is (a) ton?
Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the code that wins us the war in this 2014 film.
What is the Imitation Game?
This state is not a member of the B-52s, but their lobster sure does rock.
What is Maine?
Pack the Vegemite! This country opened its first Mathnasium in 2019.
What is Australia?
This delightful Italian dessert is made with alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in a coffee-liqueur combo with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
What is Tiramisu?
One of many curvy bones, it can also mean to tease or mess with someone.
What is (a) rib?
Lindsay Lohan's character says this phrase as the winning answer to “what is the limit as x approaches zero of [ln(1-x)-sinx]/(1-cos²x)”.
What is "The Limit Does Not Exist"?
Red sandstone soil and reddish silt carried by the river are what give this state its "Colored Red" Spanish name.
What is Colorado?
The very first Mathnasium center opened in this Los Angeles neighborhood.
What is Westwood?
Many people think her lawsuit was frivolous, but Stella Liebeck needed skin grafts for the third-degree burns that the coffee disaster from this company caused.
What is McDonald's?
An equal amount of points, or part of workplace dress code.
What is (a) tie?
For the Douglas Adams fans: This number is associated with life, the universe, and everything.
What is 42?
This state has had its fair share of Mexican Wars, and their modern day Mexican 'Food Wars' are no exception.
What is Texas? (editor's note: SoCal has the better Mexican food.)
A student advances to a new level of study upon the independent completion of this challenge.
What is a Mastery Check?
This programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems is named after an Indonesian beverage.
What is Java?
Spongebob famously teaches Plankton the value of this concept.
What is fun?
Jodie Foster discovers an alien communication signal encoded in these kinds of numbers.
What are Prime Numbers?
A meringue, ice cream, and cake dessert named after the U.S. purchase of this state is typically torched (or baked...) under high heat before serving.
What is Alaska?
This isn't just a way to measure the center of a circle to its edge, it's also a valuable tool for Mathnasium franchisees.
What is (a) Radius?
This classical music composer was an obsessive coffee fan, reportedly insisting on exactly 60 beans being used in his daily cup.
Who was (Ludwig van) Beethoven?
An "eternity" is over twice as long as this span of time.
What is (an) eon?