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Math History
Math Problems
Math Wild Card
100
Before becoming a math teacher, your teacher studied this subject in university.
What is Material Engineering?
100
This is your favorite music artist.
Who is ???
100
This is how we treat classmates when they are speaking.
What is listen respectfully?
100
This Greek mathematician is famous for the theorem about the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
100
A coffee shop blends Blend X (80% Arabica, 320,000 VND/kg) and Blend Y (30% Arabica, 120,000 VND/kg) to produce 50 kg of a mix that is 54% Arabica. What is the total cost of beans needed?
10,800,000 VND
100
A standard chessboard contains this many squares in total, when you count all sizes of squares.
What is 204?
200
This is someone who has had a major positive influence on my life.
Who is my Dad (Dr. Nguyễn Đình Uyên)?
200
This is what you want to study in University.
What is ???
200
This is what the teacher will do if you use your phones in class.
What is give you a warning, and if you use it again I will take it away?
200
This Roman numeral represents 50.
What is L?
200
An athletic track has two straight sections of 100 m each and two semicircles at each end. The total perimeter is 400 m. What is the area, in m², of the rectangle enclosed between the two straight sections?
6,366 m²
200
This famous number is approximately 1.6181.618 and appears in mathematics, nature, art, and architecture.
What is Golden Ratio?
300
This is the rapper your teacher would defend if the Drake vs. Kendrick debate broke out in class.
What is Kendrick?
300
Money is no longer a problem! This is what you would do if you had unlimited money.
I would.....
300
This is what you do when you have a question/answer a question in class.
What is raise your hand and wait to be called on?
300
This Greek mathematician famously studied circles and calculated a surprisingly accurate approximation of π.
Who is Archimedes?
300
The mean score of 6 girls on a maths test is 82 and the mean score of 4 boys is 73. Three new students join the class, each scoring 85. The new overall class mean is?
79.9
300
This number system uses only two digits and is the foundation of modern computers.
What is binary?
400
This is my personal best hip thrust weight. 
What is 125kg?
400
Tell the teacher something you want to accomplish this year. Could be personal, academic, etc...
This year I want to accomplish.....
400
You don't understand the instructions, but everyone else has already started. This is what you should do.
What is ask for clarification/help?
400
Newton and Leibniz independently developed this branch of mathematics involving rates of change and accumulation.
What is calculus?
400
A hotel is building a rectangular swimming pool next to its building. The hotel has 80 meters of fencing available, but the side of the pool next to the hotel does not need fencing.
The manager wants the pool to have the largest possible surface area while using exactly 80 meters of fencing.
What dimensions should the pool have to maximize its area? What is the maximum possible area?
800 meter squared
400
In a room of 23 people, there is roughly a 50% chance that two people share this.
What is a birthday?
500
This is why Ms. Kristine wanted to become a teacher
What is ???
500
Tell the teacher what you tend to struggle in Math class.
I tend to struggle with....
500
Your teacher doesn't expect you to be perfect at math. This is the ONE thing she expects you to do when something is difficult.
What is keep trying?
500
This Vietnamese counting tool, traditionally made with beads, was used for arithmetic calculations.
What is an abacus?
500
A delivery company uses GPS data to track the position of a driver throughout the day.
The manager notices that the driver sometimes speeds up, slows down, and occasionally stops to make deliveries.
The manager wants to determine:
- When the driver was stopped
- When the driver was moving forward
- When the driver was moving backward
- When the driver was traveling fastest
What calculus information would you need to determine these things?
The first derivative gives velocity.
- Velocity = 0 → stopped
- Positive velocity → moving forward
- Negative velocity → moving backward
- Largest absolute velocity → fastest movement.
500
This number is the only number whose English name is in alphabetical order from beginning to end.
What is forty?