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 Wagon

The Robber in Charge:
Chief Thief

Odd 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!

1. Low-Ranking Half of an Ordered Pair
2. Avoidance of Math Sentences
3. Calcium Carbonate Lecture
4. Decrease in Binary Operations
5. Dirty Three-Dimensional Object
6. Fat-Free Average
7. Internal Dissension Among Rational Numbers
8. Lust for Minuends and Subtrahends
9. Naked Quadrilateral
10. Odd Set of y-Values
11. Reddish-Brown Digit
12. Sudden and Extreme Second-Degree Polynomial
13. Slander Against an Iterative Process
14. Mentally Healthy Two-Dimensional Grid
15. Ice Cream Holder, All By Itself
16. Old and Tilted Item

For more fun with hinky-pinkies, check out this easy hink pink quiz.

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Spoiler… answers below.

1. Subordinate Coordinate
2. Equation Evasion
3. Chalk Talk
4. Addition Attrition
5. Squalid Solid
6. Lean Mean
7. Fraction Faction
8. Subtraction Attraction
9. Bare Square
10. Strange Range
11. Umber Number
12. Dramatic Quadratic
13. Recursion Aspersion
14. Sane Plane
15. Lone Cone
16. Oblique Antique