Geometry
The sum of the interior angles in a hexagon
What is 720o?
This type of function has a constant rate of change and its graph is always a straight line
If 5 cats can catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to catch 100 mice?
What is 5 minutes?
This 17th-century English Scientist co-invented calculus
Who is Issac Newton?
You're comparing cell phone plans: one charges a flat monthly fee and another charges by the minute. Which math concept helps you find where the two plans cost the same?
What is solving a system of equations (or finding the intersection point)?
The remaining side length of a triangle with side length 12 and hypotenuse 13
What is 5?
This function has both a maximum and a minimum within one period and can be written with sine and cosine
What is a trigonometric function?
This is the next number in the following sequence 2,3,5,8,13, . . .
What is 21?
This simple counting tool uses rows of beads on rods and was one of the earliest devices to help people add and subtract
What is the abacus?
An engineer needs to determine how much paint will cover a curved metal tank. Which branch of math helps measure the surface area of irregular shapes?
What is geometry?
The area of a circle with a diameter of 10
What is A = 25pi?
This function grows slowly and increases without bound but only for x>0. The inverse of exponential
What is a logarithmic function?
A couple went for a picnic. They have five sons and each son has three sisters. Each sister has one baby. This is the number of people in total that went to the picnic.
What is 13 people?
This ancient civilization was the first to use a symbol for zero and developed place-value notation around 500 CE
What is India?
An architect draws a building's blueprint so that every small measurement on paper corresponds to a larger one in real life. What mathematical concept ensures all proportions stay consistent?
What is similarity or scale factor?
The area of a triangle with vertices coordinates (0,0), (4,0), (4,3)
What is 6?
This function approaches an invisible boundary that it never crosses, often used to describe the shape of a hyperbola, or rational equation
What is a rational function?
An animal shelter has 100 pairs of dogs. Each dog gave birth to two pairs of puppies. Unfortunately, half of the babies did not survive. This is the number of dogs left in the animal shelter in total.
What is 600 dogs?
Before calculators, mathematicians used special printed tables of numbers to make multiplication easier. These tables contained what kind of numbers?
What are logarithms?
When scientists try to predict tomorrow's temperature using data from the past week, they often draw a line that best fits the data points. What mathematical method are they using?
What is linear regression (or line of best fit)?
The radius of a cone's base if height=9 and volume=108pi
What is 6?
This function's graph looks like a "V." It's formed by taking the distance x from zero
What is an absolute value function?
Adding six to eleven to get five can be done using this device.
What is a clock?
This Italian mathematician introduced Europe to Hindu-Arabic numerals and the number zero through his book Liber Abaci in the 1200s. Also known for his famous sequence
Who is Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)?
A pharmaceutical company wants to model how quickly a drug spreads through the bloodstream right after injection, then levels off. What model best describes this rise then plateau behavior?
What is an exponential decay model?