Math Hinky-Pinkies
October 1, 2013 at 11:20 pm 8 comments
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
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Shirley A Burns | October 2, 2013 at 3:08 am
How about “Beast Feast” for the dinner party?
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venneblock | October 3, 2013 at 8:10 am
Oh, for Pete’s sake, Shirley! Why couldn’t I come up with that? Thanks for putting this to rest for me… I’ll sleep easier knowing the answer.
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Forwood, Traci | October 2, 2013 at 11:34 am
Good morning!
Great stuff you send! I really enjoy it. My only guess for the hinky-pinky for Dinner Party for Wild Animals would be Beast Feast. (I considered Safari Soiree, but that didn’t work so well.)
Anyway… thanks so much for making math funny! Keep it coming!:)
Regards,
Traci Forwood
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venneblock | October 3, 2013 at 8:14 am
I played with “soiree,” too, but I didn’t think of Safari Soiree.
Thanks for the compliment! I’ll do my best to keep good stuff coming!
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xander | October 2, 2013 at 5:03 pm
It pains me to admit this, but number 13 made me laugh. And “beast feast” was the best I could come up with.
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venneblock | October 3, 2013 at 8:11 am
This is why I haven’t quit my day job — a stand-up comedian who can only make folks laugh 1 out of 16 attempts isn’t going to make it very far.
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xander | October 3, 2013 at 1:32 pm
To be fair, I chuckled at the rest, but it was #13 that caused my wife to ask what was so funny, then issue the appropriate dope slap to the back of my head.
Here’s my attempt:
Very Rough Page of Braille
Tactile Fractal
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venneblock | October 4, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Huzzah!