We all know that definitions play an important role in mathematics.
Test your wits by matching the definition given in Column A
with the appropriate mathematical term in Column B.
Column A
_____ 1. Where people go for committing crimes
_____ 2. What termites can do to a wooden ship
_____ 3. What a farmer might say to another
_____ 4. What gentlemen go to the beach to become
_____ 5. A dessert
_____ 6. What little acorns say when they grow up
_____ 7. What to do when it rains
_____ 8. What to call a dead parrot
_____ 9. African drum music
_____ 10. A couple who goes bowling
_____ 11. Straight forward magic tricks
_____ 12. A no good, double dealing bum
_____ 13. Where mermaids live
_____ 14. How you make a sweater
_____ 15. Advice to a young man when he takes his girl home
_____ 16. Desert her
_____ 17. Untidy kitchen floor
_____ 18. Smart time piece
_____ 19. Not up on things
_____ 20. Vile
_____ 21. How to make a ditch
_____ 22. An impotent witch's spell
_____ 23. What you do with a worm
Column B
a. lever
b. unit
c. tangents
d. digit
e. decagon
f. polygon
g. clockwise
h. directrix
i. logarithm
j. pi
k. indices
l. coefficient
m. square
n. geometry
o. parabolas
p. hexagon
q. prism
r. locus
s. fulcrums
t. mean
u. coincide
v. loci
w. mantissa