Parabolas
The minimum or maximum point on a parabola.
What is the Vertex?
Not a number, but a concept that reperesents going on forever and ever (there is both a positive and negative one).
What is infinity?
The name of the area of math that studies things like variables and equations.
What is Algebra?
Byank's favorite pianist, generally considered to be the greatest ever.
Who is Franz Liszt?
10 plus 23
What is 33?
The point or points where the parabola crosses the x-axis.
What are the x-intecepts (or zeros or roots) of the parabola?
Not a formal mathematical number, 10100 with a name similar to the internet related tech company.
What is Googol?
The area of math focused on measurement and shapes like circles and polygons.
What is Geometry?
This two word phrase can be used to pledge allegiance to the Lord of Darkenss.
What is Hail Satan?
3 minus 9
What is negative 6?
The line that runs through the middle of the parabola splitting it into two equal (symmetrical) halves.
What is the Axis of Symmetry?
Million, Billion, Trillion, ____________
What is Quadrillion?
The area of math focused on triangles, particularly right triangles (think sine, cosine and tangent).
What is trigonometry?
The periods in history during which dinosaurs lived on the earth.
What are the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, which together made up the Mesozoic era?
4 times 6
What is 24?
The number of points needed to identify a unique parabola.
What is three (3)?
Googol's big bother, it is 10 to the googol power
What is Googolplex?
The type of math invented simultaneously by Gottfried Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton, to study continuous change.
What is Calculus?
The best Star Wars movie ever made.
What is the Empire Strikes Back?
120 divided by 60
What is 2?
The name for the quadratic form written as ax2+bx+c=0.
What is Standard form
The largest number used in a mathematical proof.
What is Graham's number?
The branch of applied mathematics concerned with collecting, organizing, and interpreting data. The data are represented by means of graphs.
What is Statistics?
Who is Katharine's favorite pianist? Generally considered by Mike and Katharine to be better than Franz Liszt.
Who is Sir Elton John? La...la, la, la, la, la!!!
5 squared
What is 25?