MATH JEOPARDY

MATH HISTORY

100

Around the 5th century, mathematicians in this country were the first to treat "zero" as a formal number with its own symbol, rather than just a placeholder.

What is India?

200

Although known to the Babylonians much earlier, this Greek philosopher is credited with the famous theorem a^2 + b^2 = c^2.

Who was Pythagoras?

300

The word "Algebra" comes from the title of a book by this 9th-century Persian mathematician.

Who was al-Khwarizmi?

400

This British mathematician and WWII codebreaker is considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Who was Alan Turing?

500

This ancient civilization used a base-10 system and developed advanced geometry to rebuild farm boundaries and construct massive triangular tombs.

Who were the Egyptians?

TYPES OF GRAPH

100

Also known as a "pie chart," this circular graph is divided into slices to show how a whole is broken into percentages or parts.

What is a Circle Graph?

200

Often used to track changes over short or long periods, this graph connects individual data points with a continuous path to show a trend.

What is a Line Graph?

300

This type of graph uses dots to represent values for two different numeric variables, often used to determine if there is a correlation between them.

What is a Scatter Plot?

400

While it looks like a bar graph, this specific chart represents the distribution of continuous numerical data by grouping values into "bins" or intervals with no spaces between the bars.

What is a Histogram?

500

 This graph uses rectangular blocks of different heights to compare quantities between different groups or categories.

What is a Bar Graph?

ADD/SUB

100

MENTAL MATH 

563-246=

317

200

MENTAL MATH 

23.67+56.58=

80.25

300

MENTAL MATH 

99.45-72.46=

26.99

400

MENTAL MATH 

8,435 + 577

9,012

500

MENTAL MATH 

3,659 + 567 + 345 + 12

4,583

MULTIPLICATION

100

MENTAL MATH 

1000x1000

10000

200

MENTAL MATH 

15 x 15

225

300

MENTAL MATH 

587x14

8218

400

Mental Math

 5.4 x 100

540

500

MENTAL MATH 

12 x 9

108

DIVISION

100

MENTAL MATH

800/20

40

200

MENTAL MATH 

180/12

180

300

MENTAL MATH 

9,060/12

755

400

MENTAL MATH

256/4

64

500

MENTAL MATH 

45/9=

5

RANDOM

100

MENTAL MATH 

3x- 14= 76 ?

30

200

MENTAL MATH  

5(x-10)= 60

22

300

Where is Mr. Johnson from extra 100 what college id he go to Extra extra what greek house was he in 

Michigan, WMU , Sigma Chi 

400

MENTAL MATH 

2x-6/5= 17x+ 5

x=-31/75

500

MENTAL MATH 

4x+20= 100

x = 20