In each of the definitions or clues listed below, there are two rhyming words -- and at least one of them is a math term.
The missing word in each of the following pairs is a math term.
Example: 5 o'clock is prime time .
1. 2000 pounds is ton .
2. A royal prince is a highness .
3. Rectangle length is the wide .
4. A skillet diameter is a griddle .
5. Four and nine are a pair .
6. A wrong total is a dumb .
7. A finger tapper is a fidget .
8. A college student majoring in mathematics is following a path
.
9. A figure with three curved sides is a newfangle .
10. Solving a definite integral is calculation .
11. A woman who can add forty numbers in her head is an magician
.
12. A pair of cows is moo .
13. After winning the championship for the seventh time in a row,
the coach said, "Next year will be straight ."
14. When you add 4 pigs to 5 pigs, you get swine .
15. When Noah painted his boat black, God said it was a dark .
16. A Ph.D. is a marquee .
17. There is a fine between genius and insanity.
18. One astronaut in space is solitude .
19. The two delinquent boys were trouble .
20. The magician's concentration was a hokus pokus .
21. A chuckle is a laugh .
22. A converse is a reverse . (well, not really).
23. Extra Credit: Make up your own rhyme with definition or clue (one word must be a math word).
Solution to the Problem:
1. 2000 pounds is one ton .2. A royal prince is a highness minus .
3. Rectangle length is the wide side .
4. A skillet diameter is a griddle middle .
5. Four and nine are a square pair .
6. A wrong total is a dumb sum .
7. A finger tapper is a digit fidget .
8. A college student majoring in mathematics is following a math path .
9. A figure with three curved sides is a newfangle triangle .
10. Solving a definite integral is integration calculation .
11. A woman who can add forty numbers in her head is an addition magician .
12. A pair of cows is two moo .
13. After winning the championship for the seventh time in a row,
the coach said, "Next year will be eight straight ."
14. When you add 4 pigs to 5 pigs, you get nine swine .
15. When Noah painted his boat black, God said it was a dark arc .
16. A Ph.D. is a marquee degree .
17. There is a fine line between genius and insanity.
18. One astronaut in space is solitude altitude.
19. The two delinquent boys were double trouble.
20. The magician's concentration was a hokus pokus focus .
21. A chuckle is a half laugh .
22. A converse is a reverse inverse . (well, not really).
Here are some great answers from problem solvers:
23. The phase, period, and amplitude define a sine line. (not really a line) (Chad Fore)
24. Someone who withholds the "leftovers" of long division would be called a remainder detainer. (Chad Fore)
25. He who sums up volumes of the same math book would be performing edition addition. (Chad Fore)
26. When separating cuts, you might say it's incision division. (Chad Fore)
27. The capital Greek letter sigma is known as summation notation. (Chad Fore)
28. Instead of a ninety degree angle, one could write right, right? (Chad Fore)
29. A six-sided figure from south of the border would be called a Mexican hexagon. (Chad Fore)
30. A 4-wheeled farming vehicle with 180 degree plastic wheels would be called a protractor tractor. (Chad Fore)
31. When someone takes my things, I have a _subtraction_ REACTION. (James Alarie)
32. A bracelet with two pairs of parallel edges might be a rectangle bangle. (A. Jacobs)
33. The point where two curves meet on a graph would be a function junction. (Keith Mealy)
33. 7 had a kid and when he was 14 they called him repetition addition. (Hannah Behunin)
34. if you use o/h you'll be FINE to find (sine). (Morgan Harris)
35. A very attractive turnip is acute root. (Keith Mealy)
36. Someone who is enamored with squaring is an exponent proponent (Keith Mealy)
Chad Fore sent in SUMMATION CALCULATION as an answer to #10, which works very well since we teach Integration as a summation!
Correctly solved by:
| 1. James Alarie * | Flint, Michigan |
| 2. Chad Fore * | Gate City, Virginia |
| 3. Qanaar Pearson |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 4. Nabil Al-Zaidy |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 5. Haley Martin |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 6. Latricia Jefferson |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 7. A. Jacobs * |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 8. Ryan Lambert |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 9. Hannah Behunin * |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 10. Aziza |
John F. Kennedy High School, Taylor, Michigan |
| 11. Morgan Harris * |
Mountain View High School, Mountain View, Wyoming |
| 12. Keith Mealy * | Cincinnati, Ohio |
* Solved the Extra Credit