Math History
It's a Math Life
Timberline
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Mathemagicians
100
Which mathematician only discovered his math talents while hiding from Nazis in a boarding school?
Benoit Mandelbrot
100
Which department member was born in Ohio?
Apa
100
How many department chairs has the Timberline math department had?
4 (Rainey Peters, Kathy Emerson, Teresa Pauls, The Idiot)
100
Which number between 1-1000 (inclusive) is the only one with the letter A in its name?
One-Thousand
100
Which department member read over 50 books in 2024?
Crowell
200
Which historical figure invented the coxcomb graph to help understand data from soldier illness and death?
Florence Nightingale
200
Which department member is one credit shy of a French minor?
Baker
200
What is the student-to-teacher ratio in Timberline's math classes?
21-1
200
What is the name for the division sign (÷)?
Obelus (also the name for the symbol †, which indicates that a person is deceased)
200
Which department member's least favorite state is Iowa?
Hough
300
Which mathematician coined the term "imaginary" to refer to complex numbers?
René Descartes
300
Which department member has been to all 50 states?
Barnes
300
What percent of students at Timberline take at least one AP exam?
68%
300
In a room with 23 people in it, what is the probability that two people share a birthday?
50%
300
Which department member has never broken a bone?
Stucki
400
Which mathematician said the following about Euler after he went blind?
"I would go blind too if I did math like Euler".
Carl Friedrich Gauss
400
Which department member fell asleep during a calculus exam (resulting in a failing grade)?
Beglinger
400
How many students at Timberline registered for two or more math classes this year?
24
400
What is the only number whose name is spelled with letters arranged in alphabetical order?
Forty
400
Which department member loves chocolate chip cookies (and is great at baking them)?
Swanson
500
This US President came up with a unique proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
President Garfield
500
Which department member is 12 years older than their nearest full sibling?
Cook
500
Which course at Timberline had the largest enrollment at registration this year?
Integrated III (234)
2nd place - Precalculus (220)
500
How many sizes of infinity have been proven to exist?
Infinite
500
Which department member has broken both of their arms?
Urquidi