Math Tools
A tool for drawing circles
What is a compass?
If you divide thirty by half, and add ten, what do you get?
70
A mnemonic for integration by parts
What is ultraviolet-voodoo?
The creator of a^2+b^2=c^2
Who is Pythagoras?
I have cities with no houses, rivers with no water, and mountains with no stone.
Generals use me. Students dread me. Explorers need me.
What am I?
A map
The required calculator for most math classes
A brain.
A word I know, Six letters it contains. Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains.
Dozens
The tune of the quadratic formula song
What is Pop Goes the Weasel?
Today's number writing system
What are Arabic numerals?
I was born in silence in ancient Alexandria.
I divide without a blade and conquer without armies.
You cannot see me, but every equation bends to me.
What am I?
Zero
The most productive completer of math homework
AI
X is an odd number. Take an alphabet away from X and it becomes even. Which is that number?
Seven (Seven-S=Even)
A way to remember the quadrants in which trig functions are positive or negative
What is All Students Take Calculus?
The fathers of calculus
Who are Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?
I’m dense, but countable. I’m “between” any two reals, yet I occupy no length
The rational numbers Q
A popular online advanced math calculator
What is Wolfram Alpha?
Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
They are a grandfather, father and son.
A calculus cowboys yee-haw
What is low-dee-high-minus-high-dee-low-all-over-low-squared?
The most recently made famous math major
Who is Pope Leo XIV? (Robert Provost)
I can be large without being big,
small without being tiny,
and I live between two numbers even when they touch.
I’m not a number, but I act like one.
What am I
A limit
A document preparation system for math and science papers
What is LaTeX?
What did one math book say to the other math book?
Do you want to hear my problems?
ILATE
What is the abbreviation of Inverse Trig, Logarithmic, Algebraic, Trigonometric, Exponential?
A mathematician that proposed all natural numbers could sum to -1/12
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
I can be infinite and still have boundaries.
I can contain a limit point I never include.
I can be “closed” without being trapped,
and “open” without letting anything escape.
What am I?
An open/closed set (topology)