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!