This week is MEA testing for Mark's class. (Kira's were last week.) One of the things that happens is that parents volunteer to send in snacks or drinks. Well, I volunteered to send in snacks *and* drinks for Mark's class. I chose Thursday, which is the only all-math day. Yes, I deliberately chose my day for snacks based on when they were doing math.
WORSE! I have now made up little snack-packs, each containing a small Gatorade, a Nature Valley granola bar and a trail mix pak. I put them into little brown-paper bags, and on each one I have stapled a slip of paper with a weird math trivia item on it. (ex. The billionth digit of pi is 9) I've made a little bag up for each kid plus the teacher.
Mark has just shaken his head and rolled his eyes at my geekiness. He did request that I drop off the snacks before school so no one would know who sent them.
Um, hate to break it to you, babe, but I'm pretty sure they'll alllllllllllll know. mk
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For any of my fellow-geeks, here are the trivia items I used:
*National Pi Day is March 14 at 1:59 (3/14 1:59)
*The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long;
More than the number of atoms in the universe.
*The billionth digit of pi is 9.
*If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc)
the total is 5050.
*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,876,654,321
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
*'FOUR' is the only number in the English language that is spelled with the same number of letters as the number itself.
*The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
*The largest number in the English language with a word naming it is a googolplex, which is 1010^100 , which would be written
as 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.
*The fear of numbers is called arithmophobia or numerophobia.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is fear of the number 666.
Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
*If you keep removing a digit from the right hand end of the prime number 73,939,133, each of the remaining numbers is also prime. It's the largest number known with this property.
*In the English language "forty" is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order.
*To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719 by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front.
It's the only number that does this.
*The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long;
More than the number of atoms in the universe.
*The billionth digit of pi is 9.
*If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc)
the total is 5050.
*111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,876,654,321
*There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
*'FOUR' is the only number in the English language that is spelled with the same number of letters as the number itself.
*The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
*The largest number in the English language with a word naming it is a googolplex, which is 1010^100 , which would be written
as 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.
*The fear of numbers is called arithmophobia or numerophobia.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is fear of the number 666.
Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
*If you keep removing a digit from the right hand end of the prime number 73,939,133, each of the remaining numbers is also prime. It's the largest number known with this property.
*In the English language "forty" is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order.
*To multiply 10,112,359,550,561,797,752,808,988,764,044,943,820,224,719 by 9 you just move the 9 at the very end up to the front.
It's the only number that does this.
And in a perfect example of what a math geek I am, I had a very hard time putting * in front of each fact, because that is the computer symbol used for multiplication. Yes. Geek. I know.
5 comments:
You are a rockin' math geek! One of your trivia things reminds me of a game/puzzle we do on the schooner called "Four is the magic number".
You have a person pick any number. Lets say they pick 18.
You then say:
18 is 8.
8 is 5.
5 is 4.
And 4 is the magic number.
Or, let's say they say 112.
You say:
112 is 16
16 is 7
7 is 5
5 is 4
and 4 is the magic number.
and so on...
Get it?
So obviously 'and' doesn't count. :D
I love that you did that.
He may act embarrassed - but I bet deep inside he really loves that you go the extra step.
Love it...and where's my complimentary snack pack?
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OK, now I'm freaking all out that I am not giving them enough food. Mark said today they had a veritable feast: apples, oranges, Smartfood, a box of saltines, pretzel sticks, three kinds of cheese, and two different flavors of gatorade.
Mark says what I've done is not enough food.
Spazzing here.
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