Professors
Math Problems
SUNY Cortland
Famous Mathemticians
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
100
This professor is our current Chair for the math department
Who is Dr. Dickerson
100
Val has a total of 66 apples and she wants to divide them up with her friends Roberto and Casey, how many apples will everyone recieve?
What is 22 apples
100
SUNY Cortland is known for this kind of major(s)
(will accept one of 2 answers)
What is teacher education or health-related majors
100
This German mathematician developed the theory of relativity, E=mc².
Who is Albert Einstein
100
How many continents are there?
What is 7
200
This professor went to SUNY Cortland to study math
Who was Dr. Reif
200
what is f'(x) if
f(x)=36x+9x3-22+x3/2
what is 36+27x2+3/2x1/2
200
In 1923, this building, which is also the oldest building on campus, completed construction and opened for its first wave of classes.
What is Old Main
200
Known as the "father of geometry," this ancient Greek mathematician authored "Elements."
Who is Euclid
200
What is the chemical symbol for water?
What is H2O
300
This professor was the Math Club Advisor AND the chair of the math department
Who was Dr. Jubran
300
Solve for x (round to nearest hundredth)
What is 11.98
300
How many majors do we offer here at SUNY Cortland?
What is 68 majors
300
This French mathematician and philosopher famously said, "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").
Who is René Descartes
300
What is the capital of Canada?
What is Ottawa
400
This professor has taught in the same semester here at Cortland and another SUNY
Bonus: What SUNY?
Who was Dr. Carsten
Bonus: ESF
400
We are given various heights (in inches):
65, 68, 70, 62, 71, 66, 69, 64, 67, 72
What is the mean and median of the given data set?
What is 67.4 and 67.5
400
Before being coined as SUNY Cortland, we were called this, until the change of name in 1941
What was Cortland Normal School
400
This French mathematician and physicist laid the groundwork for the modern theory of probability.
Who is Blaise Pascal
400
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson
500
This professor went straight to their PhD after getting their bachelors
Who was Dr. Roat
500
What is f(x) if
f'(x)=3x4+x1/2+7x+9
what is 3/5x5+ 2/3x3/2+7/2x2+9x+C
500
Where did President Bitterbaum get his Ph.D?
Bonus: In what?
What is University of Florida
Bonus: Zoology
500
Born in Italy, this mathematician is credited with popularizing the use of Arabic numerals in Europe and introducing the decimal system.
Who is Leonardo Fibonacci
500
How many bones are in the adult human body?
What is 206?