Preposterous Proportions
Tricky Triangles
Get Ratioed
Prove It
Math in the Movies
Potpourri
100
This value of x makes this equation proportional:
9/(x-7) = 6/x
What is -14?
100
It's the value of x in this figure.
What is 5?
100
Find the similarity ratio of two triangles with corresponding side lengths of 12 and 4
What is 3?
100
Don't worry if you don't know any side lengths, this similarity postulate will get you out of a corner.
What is AA Similarity?
100
In this film, Matt Damon plays a janitor at MIT, and a professor played by Robin Williams discovers that he is a mathematical genius. How do ya like them apples?
What is Good Will Hunting?
100
This is the name for a polygon with 12 sides.
What is a dodecagon?
200
It's the mean proportional of 3 and 75.
What is 15?
200
It's the length of AC in the tringle.
What is 14.3?
200
If the similarity ratio between two triangles is 4/7 , then the ratio between their perimeters is this.
What is 4/7?
200
Deja vu! This postulate used in proofs is "similar" to CPCTC, but its only used for similar triangles.
What is CSSTP?
200
The Theory of Everything follows the events of this physicist's life, including the creation of his Black Hole Theory.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
200
In parallelograms, consecutive angles have this type of relationship.
What is they are supplementary?
300
6 is the mean proportional between 4 and this other number.
What is 9?
300
It's the least number of angles needed to show two triangles are similar.
What is 2?
300
It's the ratio of boys to girls in class today.
What is 12:13?
300
It's not the British special forces with the same name, but this triangle similarity postulate that requires proportional sides and congruent included angles to prove similarity.
What is SAS Similarity?
300
You don't have to be a man to be a great mathematician! Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three women who worked for this government agency in the 1960s.
What is NASA?
300
We can simplify sqrt(54) to this value.
What is
3sqrt6 ?
400
The height of a tree is 25 meters and its shadow is 10 meters. If a stop sign has a height of 15 meters, what is the length of its shadow?
What is 6?
400
This value of x will make the following triangles similar.
What is 20?
400
\Delta ABC ~ \Delta DEF. If AB = 28, BC = 16, AC = 36, and DE = 7, then this is the perimeter of \Delta DEF .
What is 20?
400
If we want to show that two figures are similar in the coordinate plane, we just need to show that this type of transformation has occurred.
What is a dilation?
400
This 2001 movie starring Russel Crowe as mathematician John Nash won 4 Academy Awards. In real life, Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
400
These are the four types of transformations.
What are translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations?
500
We can use this proportion to solve for x in the figure.
What is
24/x=9/15
500
This value of h satisfies the following image.
What is 4?
500
To find the ratio between areas of similar triangles, we do this to the similarity ratio.
What is square it?
500
In the figure below, we see that (JM)/(JK)=(JN)/(JL) . So we can sat that MN and KL are these types of lines.
What are parallel?
500
It's like it never ends! The 2015 film showing the life of Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujen was called The Man Who Knew _______.
What is Infinity?
500
He may have been a cult leader, but this philosopher gave us his now famous equation a^2+b^2=c^2 for finding the side lengths of right triangles.
Who is Pythagorus?