Department of Mathematics

UQ EXPO Mathematical Scavenger Hunt

Win Texas Instruments graphing calculators

for your school or for yourself.

The Mathematics Department at The University of Queensland is holding a Mathematical Scavenger Hunt to coincide with UQ EXPO. Its purpose is to highlight the occurrence of mathematics in everyday situations.

To enter you need to collect the items listed on the back of this sheet (or a picture of the item, or the solution to the given question) and present them at the Department of Mathematics by 2pm on Sunday the 30th of May, 1999.

Judging categories will be:

Entries by individuals, (here the prize will be a Texas Instruments TI-89 graphing calculator), or

Entries by groups of school students (here the prize will be a Texas Instruments Teachers Package, which includes a Texas Instruments TI-83 graphing calculator and a ViewScreen). This prize will be awarded to the school.

 The prizes will be awarded to the entrants who present the greatest number of correct items. If more than one complete collection is received, the names of the entrants submitting complete collections will be placed in a barrel and the winner drawn at 4 pm on Sunday the 30th of May, 1999.

For more details look on http://www.maths.uq.edu.au or contact Diane Donovan, ph (07) 3365 1354, John Belward ph (07) 3365 3257 or the Department of Mathematics Office on (07) 3365 3277.

This competition is only open to Australian Residents. All items will be checked on the spot and returned to the contestant immediately. The judges’ decision will be final.



 
 
 

SCAVENGER HUNT

 

UQ EXPO: MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT

Find the following items and present them at the Department of Mathematics by 2pm on Sunday the 30th of May, 1999 to be in the running for the draw of a Graphing Calculator.

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Please tick the category you wish to enter

INDIVIDUAL SECTION  
SCHOOL SECTION  
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Pascal's triangle     A Venn diagram  
A picture of Charles Babbage's adding machine     A picture of the Enigma machine  
A calendar for 1900.     A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk  
An electrical circuit board     A copy of "Through the Looking Glass"  
A graph showing movement in the "All Ordinaries Index"     A diagram showing forces acting on a simple pendulum bob.  
An example of the Error Function     A tetrahedron  
The Lorenz Strange Attractor     An Euler walk  
A copy of the Mathematics Department newsletter Infinity     Rubik Magic (Rubik’s rings)  
10(modulo 7)     A segment of a DNA sequence  
A conic section     A pine cone  
An example of supercoiling     A Lissajou’s figure  
A book containing periodic tables     A drawing of a soliton (a solitary wave)  
The URL for the Department of Mathematics, the University of Queensland     The probability that you can be dealt a bridge hand with all 13 cards of the same suit.  
A magic square     A golden ratio rectangle  
A Fortran subroutine.      The parity check digit for the binary string 011011011110  
The number 303 expressed as a hexadecimal     A transcendental number  
An example of Penrose Tiling     The date of birth of Alan Turing  
A nomogram     A fractal