{"id":1228,"date":"2011-03-30T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:56:58","slug":"cheer-on-the-auggies-in-math-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2011\/03\/30\/cheer-on-the-auggies-in-math-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheer on the Auggies in Math Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1229\" alt=\"mathjeopardy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/mathjeopardy.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/mathjeopardy.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/mathjeopardy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/mathjeopardy-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>For zero dollars, what is a fun time Friday night in Sateren Auditorium? The answer\u2014the first-ever ACTC Math Jeopardy tournament, a friendly competition among Augsburg, University of St. Thomas, and Macalester. No computers will participate.<\/p>\n<p>The idea for a Jeopardy tournament was the idea of mathematics professor Katy Micek, who wanted to create a tradition of friendly competition among the ACTC mathematics clubs. With funding support from the dean&#8217;s office, Augsburg Student Government, and the participating schools, the tournament became possible and will feature a gameboard and buzzer-and-light system, just as on TV.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Logistics for the jeopardy tournament including game rules, questions, participants were created primarily by Micek and department chair Matt Haines. The questions (or &#8220;answers&#8221;) have been created by the Augsburg math faculty and are a mixture of trivia, history, and calculation. Teams of four students will compete in two rounds of Jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Unbounded, Augsburg&#8217;s Mathematics Club, has helped make the tournament a reality. Treasurer Austin Wagner and Brian Love designed t-shirts, which all participants will receive. Vice-president Jeremy Anthony put together the grant request that secured Student Government funding.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg&#8217;s team members are Austin Wagner, Nou Xiong, Emma Wineagar, Andrew Witte, Megan Sutherland, Carl Benson, Brian Love, and Jeremy Anthony. It&#8217;s reported that Professor Micek will be the Alex Trebek of ACTC Math Jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>The ACTC Math Jeopardy tournament begins at 7 p.m. Friday evening, April 1, in Sateren Auditorium. The Auggie team would love to have fans cheering them on to victory past St. Thomas and Macalester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For zero dollars, what is a fun time Friday night in Sateren Auditorium? The answer\u2014the first-ever ACTC Math Jeopardy tournament, a friendly competition among Augsburg, University of St. Thomas, and Macalester. No computers will participate. The idea for a Jeopardy tournament was the idea of mathematics professor Katy Micek, who wanted to create a tradition &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,72,1824,1825],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-actc-math-jeopardy-tournament","tag-actc-mathematics-clubs","tag-math-jeopardy","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}