Math Terminology
This item, usually wooden or a rubbery plastic, has 12 inches that students can measure with
What is a ruler?
Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from ATARI was the coolest thing ever for a while
What is PONG?
Think of Roman Numerals and you'll know the U.S. Army's Fourth Infantry Division has this plant as its official nickname
What is Ivy?
A little bird told us that Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first Big-Name talent to sign on for this 1969 event
What is woodstock?
The Toftan Soap dispenser is one of several bathroom products this retail giant has named after Swedish bodies of water
What is IKEA?
On a calculator, you can find the terms "perm" and "com", with perm meaning permutations and com meaning this
What are combinations?
Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor
What is Ms. Pacman?
This nickname for McDonald's has official status in China, where i's a legal name for the Chain--Jingongmen in Mandarin
What are Golden Arches?
Despite their rep, the domesticated swine kept in these enclosures are quite clean--which is more than we can say for some humans
What are pigpens?
No toilet paper needed for your booty when your using this bathroom fixture that's french for "small horse"
What is Bidet?
When talking about banking, when you earn interest on both the principal and on the interest you've already accumulated, that's what Suze Orman calls the magic of this.
What is compounding?
He was a bouncing orange critter with a big nose and an asterisk in his name
What is Q*bert?
Powerhouse Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch trademarked this as his nickname
What is Beast Mode?
John Lennon claimed this song referred to a drawing by his young son--not to a little girl who charged money for psychiatric advice
What is Lucy and the sky with diamonds?
Playing Lillian, Maya Rudolph delivers the line "Oh, no, no, no. Oh no. I need a bathroom" In this 2011 film comedy
What is bridesmaids?
Intersectional analysis is a way to evaluate how multiple variables influence the accuracy of this surveillance technology that people struggle with darker faces
What is facial recognition?
Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches
What is Joust?
For 2020, the centennial year of American women getting to vote, Philadelphia got this altered nickname
What is the City of Sisterly Love?
Back in the day, York Cone Company required this candy to pass a "snap test" to assure that it would break in half evenly
What is Peppermint Patty?
The Baltimore museum of art has all-gender restrooms named after this "Hairspray" film director
Who is John Waters?
Natural objects, such as ferns, often show these patterns of similar structures at smaller and larger scales studied since the 1970's
What are fractals?
You had left, middle, and right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. army unit known as MICOM
What is Missel Command?
Longtime President Nazarbayev decided this vast central Asian Country would be the "Land of the Great Steppe"
What is Khazikstan?
By all accounts, this scientist earned both his Nobel Prizes-- for chemistry and peace-- without the aid of a security blanket
Who is Linus Pauling?
It's the popular restaurant chain whose restrooms are labeled "Blokes" & "Sheilas"
What is Outback Steakhouse?