World Pi Day
What is the sixteenth letter of the Greek
Alphabet? (Spell it out!)
Pi
Who was the first person to theoretically calculate Pi?
Archimedes of Syracuse
Factorise 5x^2+3x
x(5x+3)
Simplify: (2y)/3-y/4
(5y)/12
What is the name of the book/film that features a character named "Pi"?
Life of Pi
Pi belongs to which number set?
Irrational
Which famous scientist was born on March 14th, 1879?
Albert Einstein
Factorise 2m^2+6mn-m-3n
(2m-1)(m+3n)
Simplify fully: 4/(3x)+ 3/(2x)
17/(6x)
What is the name of the 2001 film starring Russell Crowe, a Maths genius bored with his job at MIT, who must find a way to control his powerful mind to control itself?
A Beautiful Mind
Pi is the ratio of the _________ to the diameter of any circle.
Circumference
Which mathematician proved that Pi was irrational?
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Factorise 4x^2-19x-5
(4x+1)(x-5)
Simplify the following by writing as a single fraction:
(x+1)/(x+2)-(2x-5)/(3x-1)
(x^2+3x+9)/((x+2)(3x-1))
What is the name of the film written by the late Stephen Hawking adapted from his wife's book entitled, My Life with Stephen?
The Theory of Everything
What is the value of pi to the hundred-thousandths place?
3.14159
Which famous theoretical physicist died on March 14th, 2018?
Stephen Hawking
Factorise k^4-16
(k-2)(k+2)(k^2+4)
Simplify: ((5x)/((x-3)(4x+7)) ) times (4x+7)/x
5/(x-3)
What is the name of the film based on the life of Alan Turing, a brilliant English mathematician and cryptanalyst who led a code-cracking team that aided the Allies during World War II?
The Imitation Game
What number does not appear in the first 30 digits of Pi?
0
Which mathematician introduced the symbol for Pi as the Greek letter pi , in 1706?
William Jones
Factorise 10y^2-3y-1
(5y+1)(2y-1)
Simplify: (10xy)/7 div (20x)/(14y
y^2
What is the name of the 2016 film based on the true story of the black female mathematicians who played a crucial role in the early days of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)?
Hidden Figures
Rajveer Meena recited how many digits of Pi on March 21, 2015?
70 000
Which famous mathematician, in 1666, used calculus to calculate Pi to sixteen decimal places?
Issac Newton
Factorise x=(3x-2)/x
(x-2)(x-1)
Simplify: ((x-4)(x+3))/(4x-x^2) times ((x^2-x)/((x+3)(x-1)))
-1
What is the name of the Disney movie where the key character goes on an adventure in which it is explained how mathematics can be used in real life?
Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land