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List of Mathematical Items
Challenges in Math Motion
Club challenge:
Order the 36 members from tallest to smallest.
Shape challenge:
Untangle a knot with ten members of your shape group team faster than any
other shape group in your club. Club Judge makes team knots and signals
start.
Teacher challenge: Teacher
A must move a t-shirt from teacher B to teacher C while teachers' hands
are firmly clasped. (Two groups of three teachers to compete. Fastest
group wins $ for their color clubs)
Club challenge:
Find the person whose hair length is the longest length of all in your
club. Club having member with longest hair wins.
TROLL QUESTION
Club challenge:
Club forms circle, members remove one shoe, toss into the center.
First club to reclaim and put back on their own shoes wins.
Club challenge:
In one minute, use all the member of your club to form a non-rectangular
parallelogram. Best looking figure wins for their color club.
TROLL QUESTION
Team challenge:
Form the number result to 2000 + 2900 + 4041 with your teammates arms/legs/bodies;
display for club judge.
Shape challenge:
(Do the "Josephus" problem) Form a circle with your entire
club. Select a volunteer to start. At that person, count clockwise
by 7s; the seventh person sits down. Keep counting off by 7s with
people still standing until there is only one person standing. The
shape of the person remaining is the winning 1/3 club.
Club challenge:
Count the number of watches in your club. Club with the greatest
number wins.
Club challenge:
Form a circle with your club. Say the numbers from 1 to 150 in order
but instead of saying perfect squares, clap your hands. If you make
a mistake, start from the most recent correctly clapped perfect square.
First club to reach 150 wins.
Challenges in Math Mystery
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Team Challenge: Put
in increasing order by the number of faces of the 3-d solids: cube, tetrahedron,
triangular prism, dodecahedron, octahedron.
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Team Challenge: If
a clerk in a butcher shop is 5 feet 10 inches, what does he weigh?
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TROLL QUESTION
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Team Challenge: How
many triangles are in this picture?
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Team Challenge:
The following are in a single
file line: Rachel, Sarah, Tom, Ursula, and Vincent
- Tom insists on being between
Sarah and Rachel
- Ursula is the last girl
in line
- Vincent always follows
all of the girls
- Ursula and Sarah are together
Who's first?
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Team Challenge: On
Christmas Day, when it is 7 am in New York, what time is it in Los Angeles?
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Team Challenge: How
many days in a leap year?
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Team Challenge: Which
is larger: a box with sides 4", 5", and 6" or one with all sides
5"?
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TROLL QUESTION
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Team Challenge: Which
equation doesn't belong?
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3x + 5 = 4x + 6
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21x + 10 = -11
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x2 + 2x =
-1
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2x + 8 = 10
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Team Challenge: What
travels around the world and stays in the corner?
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Team Challenge: How
many two cent stamps are in a dozen?
Challenges in Math Madness
Troll Challenges
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Guess the shape of the figure
drawn on your back. (Shape drawn by Monty Math on competitor's
back. Draw a pentagon or a hexagon)
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Name any dead mathematician.
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Pick any pair of teachers.
Teacher task: cut a 3 x 5 notecard so that the student can walk through
the incision. Student wins if teachers are successful.
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Solve a Math Limerick (add the
missing number in the final line):
Limerick #1
20% of the price is nice
To subtract from the
price of the rice.
It
is 20% off,
And
equals, I scoff,
_______ % of the
price. |
Limerick #2
Tis a favorite project
of mine
A new value of pi to
assign.
I would fix it at 3
For it's simpler, you see,
Than 3 point 1 4 1 5
________. |
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Name the movie where a bus couldn't
speed under a certain speed and it's like the movie Speed 2 but
it's with a bus.
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What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
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What city are you in?
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If Rene Descartes weighed 160
pounds standing on one foot, what did he weigh standing on two feet?
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What is the 256th digit of the
decimal fraction for 2/9?
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