Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
Department 1
Mathematics
Abstract
What word, often spelled with an umlaut, is used to identify a point on a two-dimensional graph?
Many of you probably already figured out the answer is "coordinate." But that's because you are sitting comfortably in your dorm room rather than being on a stage with bright lights in front of a few hundred people being recorded for national broadcast on public radio. [excerpt]
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This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
DOI
10.4169/mathhorizons.22.4.26
Recommended Citation
Glass, Darren. "Math Quiz on the Radio." Math Horizons 22.4 (April 2015), 26-29.
Required Publisher's Statement
Original version of the work is available from the publisher at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/mathhorizons.22.4.26?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents