3rd Grade Vocabulary
The answer to an addition problem.
What is the sum?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
What is the product?
The answer to a division problem.
What is a quotient?
What is 423 rounded to the nearest hundred?
400
Sue bought 4 shirts that cost $48 in all. How much did each shirt cost?
$12
A number that names a part of a whole or a part of a group.
What is a fraction?
The property shown here:
2 + 4 = 4 + 2
What is the Commutative Property?
The property shown here:
(8+9) + 4 = 8 + (9+4)
What is the Associative Property?
Mr. Jones ordered 24 dolls and 10 teddy bears. How many toys did Mr. Jones order in all?
34 toys
Name a fraction that is equivalent to 1/2.
Answer vary....
Ex: 2/4, 3/6, 4/8. 5/10, etc...
The number below the fraction line.
What is the denominator?
A triangle that has one right angle.
What is a right triangle?
The unit that is equivalent to 2 pints.
What is a quart?
Melanie has 8 packages of markers. Each package had 4 markers. How many markers does Melanie have?
32 markers
Helen had 189 stamps. Kevin had 205 stamps. Estimate the amount of stamps Helen and Kevin have in total.
About 400 stamps.
It names 1 equal part of a whole.
What is a unit fraction?
A part of a line that has one endpoint and continues without end in one direction.
What is a ray?
The unit that is equivalent to 1,000 meters.
What is a kilometer?
Brooke has 10 butterfly stickers. She wants to put an equal number of stickers on each of 2 cards. How many stickers can she put on each card ?
5 stickers
At the 2008 Summer Olympics the United States won 5 more gold medals than England. If England won 20 gold medals, how many gold medals did the United States win?
25 gold medals
The measure of the amount of unit squares needed to cover a flat surface.
What is area?
An angle that is less than a right angle.
What is an acute angle?
A triangle where all the sides are the same length.
What is an equilateral triangle?
James gave one-half of his box of baseball cards to Larry. If James had 20 cards in his box, how many cards did he give to Larry?
10 baseball cards
Ms. Tommie put 2 pancakes on each plate. She put 4 plates on each table. There are 3 tables. How many pancakes did Ms. Tommie serve in all?
24 pancakes