8th Grade Math Jeopardy

Exponents Basics

100

What is the big number called in exponential notation?

(Hint: This the number that is repeatedly multiplied)

What is the base?

200

3*3*3*3*3*3= 

What is the answer in exponential form?

What is 3^6?

300

What is the small number called in exponential notation?

(Hint: This is the amount if times you are multiplying the base)

What is a power/exponent?

400

When you have a negative base and an even exponent, will the product be positive or negative?

What is positive?

500

When you have a negative base and an odd exponent, will the product be positive or negative?

What is negative?

Multiplying/Dividing numbers in exponential notation.

100

When you multiply numbers in exponential notation, what do you do with the exponents? 

What is add the exponents?

200

What is the answer in exponential notation?

4⁵ * 4^{8 =} 

What is 4⁴⁰

300

When dividing numbers in exponential notation, what do you do with the exponents?

What is subtract the exponents?

400

What is the answer in exponential notation?

6¹⁸/6¹⁰

What is 6⁸?

500

Will the product be positive or negative?

-482,939^1,234

What is positive?

Geometry and Spatial Reasoning

100

A rotation can be described by these two things?

What are a center point and angle of rotation?

200

A transformation is described by these two things.

What are direction and distance?

300

This is what it is called when a shape is flipped over the x or y axis.

What is reflection?

400

The Texas Star, at Fair Park in Dallas, is the largest Ferris wheel in the western hemisphere. It has a diameter of 65 meters. This is the approximate distance traveled by a person who rides this wheel for one complete revolution.

What is 204 m?

500

This is the quadrant where the point (-6,-4) lies.

What is Quadrant III?

Measurement

100

The area of square ABCD is 400 square centimeters. This is the area of a square that has a side length that is one-half of the side length of square ABCD.

What is 100cm² ?

200

Matt's father has a computer desk in his study. The desktop is 60 inches long and 24 inches wide. Matt's father wants to build a proportionately smaller replica of his desk for Matt to use in his bedroom. If the length of Matt's desktop will be 45 inches, then this will be the perimeter?

What is 126 in ?

300

A plastics company makes two sizes of recycling bins in the shape of rectangular prisms. The smaller bin has a volume of 500 cubic inches. The length, width, and height dimensions of the larger bin are twice those of the smaller bin. This is the volume of the larger recycling bin?

What is 4,000 in³ ?

400

If triangle ABC has a base of 20 ft and area of 400 square feet, and if triangle DEF is similar and has a base of 10 ft, this would be the area of triangle DEF?

What is 100 ft² ?

500

The floor of a room measures 12 feet by 10 feet. The room has 9-foot cailings. The walls of the room are to be painted. This is the area to be painted.

What is 396 ft² ?

Probability and Statistics

100

A random survey of 75 eighth graders at Cedar Middle School showed that 37 of them do volunteer work. This is the approximate number of students who do volunteer work out of the 500 eighth graders at the school.

What is 247 ?

200

A school committee conducted a survey to find out whether teachers would prefer to start the school day 30 minutes later. Only teachers with children in preschool were surveyed. This is the reason why the results of this survey might NOT be a valid representation of what all the teachers at the school would prefer?

What is "The survey was not conducted using a random sample of teachers."

300

Mr. Williams bought three raffle tickets at a marching band fund-raiser. He finds out how many tickets were sold and calculates that his theoretical probability of winning is 1 in 150. This is the number of that tickets were sold?

What is 450 ?

400

At the Grand Lakes Basketball Tournament, 4 basketball games are played in 4 different gymnasiums at the same time. If all 4 games begin with a coin toss, this is the probability that all 4 coins will be heads?

What is one out of sixteen

500

During the past winter, the Bender family had monthly heating bills of $79, $146, $212, $149, and $212. This is the mean, meadian, mode, and range.

What are... Range: $133, Mode: $212 Median: $149 Mean: $159.60