Mathmagicians
This is the Acronym for the Order of Operations
What is PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, and Addition & Subtraction.
Pi day is celebrated on this day in March.
What is March 14th?
The US uses this number system.
What is Hindu-Arabic decimal system (Base-10)?
Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in this country.
What is India?
Pi is this type of number.
What is an irrational and transcendental number?
This is the only number that cannot be represented in Roman numerals.
This was the first year Pi Day was celebrated in the US.
What is 1988?
This number has been known by names such as cipher, zephirum, and lziphra.
What is Zero?
On this day, India celebrates the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
What is December 22nd?
This is the formal definition of pi.
What is, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter?
The opposite sides of a standard dice always total this number.
What is 7?
This famous physicist was born on March 14th, 1879.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This ancient civilization first estimated the value of pi.
What is Babylonians?
This British mathematician invited Ramanujan to Cambridge.
Who is G.H. Hardy?
This fraction is commonly used as a simple approximation of pi.
What is the fraction 22/7?
This creature constructs hexagonal hives because it is the most efficient, space-maximizing shape.
What is the honeybee?
This man founded Pi Day.
Who is Larry Shaw?
This Greek mathematician is most famous for calculating pi using geometry.
Who is Archimedes?
This number is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
What is 1729?
This is the name for the practice of memorizing large strings of digits of pi.
What is Piphilology?
In this 1997 film, Matt Damon’s character played a Harvard janitor who was a natural genius in mathematics.
What is Goodwill Hunting?
This museum is widely recognized as the first place to hold a Pi Day celebration.
What is the Exploratorium in San Francisco?
These two mathematicians are credited with independently inventing calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?
This book, by George Shoobridge Carr, inspired Ramanujan's early studies.
What is, "A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics"?
This mathematician discovered his passion for math in segregation at Menard Correctional Center and inspired Ms. Fuson to develop the first mathematics tutoring program at Graham Correctional Center.
Who is Joshua Cavazos?