Math Challenge

Transformations

100

Sliding a figure down 2 units and right 3 units is called a....

What is translation

200

Flipping a figure over the y-axis is called...

What is reflection?

300

Turning a figure 90 degrees clockwise about the origin

What is rotation?

400

The collective term for translations, reflections, and rotations

What is transformations?

500

If a figure is in the first quadrant and you rotate it 180 degrees clockwise around the origin, what quadrant will it be in now?

What is the 3rd quadrant?

Algebra

100

Solve:  -3(x + 5) = 2x - 5

x = -2

200

a symbol that represents a number that we don't know yet

What is a Variable?

300

A fixed value; one that does not change

What is a Constant?

400

Solve: 3x+2=x+6

x=2

500

Solve: 3(x+2)+5=4x+2(5)

x=1

Graphing

100

y = mx + b

What is the slope-intercept form of a linear equation?

200

The slope of the line with the points (0,4) and (0,6)

What is m=undefined

300

Slope of the line that passes through (2,6) and (4,6).

What is m=o

400

Equation for slope

What is m = (y2 - y1)/(x2 - x1)

500

Name the slope of the following line.  y = -1/2x + 8

Is it a positive or negative slope?

What is -1/2; negative.

Advanced Math

100

Slope of y=2x-4

What is m=2

200

y-intercept of y=3x-8

What is -8

300

Slope of -3/4x + 6

What is m=-3/4

400

Slope of y=-2

What is m=0

500

Find the slope of the line passing through the following points:   (-4, 0) and (-3, -2).

What is -2.

Trivia

100

The distance from zero on a number line.

What is absolute value?

200

If a line is parallel to another, it has _____ slope

...the same slope.

300

Whole numbers and their opposites.

What are integers?

400

What is a numbers favorite food?

PI!

500

The only number in the English language that is spelled with same number of letters as the number itself...

What is 4 (four)?