Archive for October 1, 2013
Math Hinky-Pinkies
A hinky-pinky is a phrase consisting of two rhyming words, such as fun run or tragic magic.
My sons recently brought home an activity sheet from school titled Stinky Pinky. It asked them to identify a hinky-pinky corresponding to a brief definition. Some examples from this sheet:
Cart for a Large Creature:
Dragon WagonThe Robber in Charge:
Chief ThiefOdd Whiskers:
Weird Beard
The one that neither they nor I could figure out:
Dinner Party for Wild Animals
Any thoughts?
Completing this activity with them, I decided to create some math hinky-pinkies, where one of the words in each pair is a common math term. Here ya go, and good luck!
- Low-Ranking Half of an Ordered Pair
- Avoidance of Math Sentences
- Calcium Carbonate Lecture
- Decrease in Binary Operations
- Dirty Three-Dimensional Object
- Fat-Free Average
- Internal Dissension Among Rational Numbers
- Lust for Minuends and Subtrahends
- Naked Quadrilateral
- Odd Set of y-Values
- Reddish-Brown Digit
- Sudden and Extreme Second-Degree Polynomial
- Slander Against an Iterative Process
- Mentally Healthy Two-Dimensional Grid
- Ice Cream Holder, All By Itself
- Old and Tilted Item
For more fun with hinky-pinkies, check out this easy hink pink quiz.
Spoiler… answers below.
- Subordinate Coordinate
- Equation Evasion
- Chalk Talk
- Addition Attrition
- Squalid Solid
- Lean Mean
- Fraction Faction
- Subtraction Attraction
- Bare Square
- Strange Range
- Umber Number
- Dramatic Quadratic
- Recursion Aspersion
- Sane Plane
- Lone Cone
- Oblique Antique