Number magic
Which square number is also a triangular number greater than 1?
36
How many minutes are in one day?
1440
What is the probability of picking a consonant from the word “MATHS”?
4/5 or 80%
A shape with eight sides is called this
Octagon
What 3-digit number is both a perfect square and a palindrome?
121 or 484
What percentage of the Earth is covered by water (roughly)?
About 70%
What do we call two events that cannot happen at the same time?
Mutually exclusive
How many sides does a circle have?
Inside and outside
If you take away my middle digit,
I stop being a square.
Put it back, and I’m one again.
What number am I?
169
How many sides does a STOP sign have?
8
Which birthday is least likely to occur in a random year?
29th February
Which shape has infinite lines of symmetry because it thinks it's perfect from every angle?
A circle
What number in the Fibonacci sequence is the first term to exceed 100 and is also a perfect square?
144
Which numbers exist even when they're not real — truly the drama queens of mathematics?
imaginary numbers
Which is more likely: A number picked from 1–100 being a multiple of 2 or a multiple of 3?
Multiple of 2
What do we call a triangle with all sides of different lengths?
Scalene triangle
Which number completes the pattern? 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, __.
91 (1 = 1, 5 = 1+4, 14 = 1+4+9 …)
What mathematical ratio is approximately 1.618 and appears in art, nature, and architecture?
The golden ratio
Which is more likely:
Rolling an even number on one fair six-sided die,
or
rolling a number greater than 3 on the same die?
They are equally likely.
Who is known as the Father of Geometry?
Euclid