Mathematical Definitions — Algebra



Definitions play an important role in mathematics.
Determine the answer to each of the definitions below
(the blanks indicate the number of letters in the word):

1. In baseball, the bags that players run around: _ _ _ _

2. To perform in the correct way:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3. To be reasonable: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

4. A person who is not "cool": _ _ _ _ _ _

5. Metal supports for your teeth:
_ _ _ _ _ _

6. Six games in tennis make one: _ _ _

7. Montgomery Taylor Sette was called
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ by his friends.

8. A couple who go bowling:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

9. Straight forward tricks:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

10. Where mermaids live: _ _ _ _ _ _ _

11. The amount of food one of the Washington Redskins eats at a meal:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

12. A place for captured butterflies:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _

13. For listening but not watching:
_ _ _ _ _

14. How to make a ditch: _ _ _ _ _

15. What to do with a worm:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

16. How the poet wrote his love:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _

17. When the sun is blocked by the moon: _ _ _ _ _ _ _

18. The Indian Chief cried to his best brave in the heat of the fight, " _ _ _ _ _ ."

19. What mathematicians sleep on:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

20. What the mermaid wore: _ _ _ _ _ _ _

21. What you call two handbell ringers:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _



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