Math Concepts
Any number, positive or negative, can be considered this if it does not have a decimal or fraction.
What is an integer?
These are the two sides of a graph, one side to side, one up and down.
What are the x and y axes?
The two parts of a fraction:
What are the numerator and denominator?
This branch of mathematics deals mainly with variables:
What is algebra?
The Babylonians began using this number as a placeholder around 300 BCE:
What is zero?
Any number, positive or negative, is referred to as this.
What is a rational number?
This is found when all the numbers of the data set are added up, and divided by the number of data values. This is also called an average.
What is the mean?
When multiplying by ten, you do this to the decimal point:
What is move it one space to the right?
This deals with shapes and solids, both 2D and 3D:
What is geometry?
This ancient "computer" was most likely conceived in Mesopotamia, and it consisted of beads to display values, which was revolutionary at the time.
What is the abacus?
This term refers to how likely am outcome is in any given situation.
What is probability?
This is when one specific value in a data set is displayed the most times out of all the other data points.
What is mode?
Explain the error: 6.4 x 0.8 = 51.2
What is the decimal point is too far to the right?
The branch of mathematics that is concerned with the basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division):
What is arithmetic?
This ancient civilization was actually the first society to use fractions:
Who are the Ancient Egyptians?
This is a number that can be squared to equal the given number. 8 is this of 64.
What is a square root?
This is the term for the average distance from the mean of a data set.
What is the mean absolute deviation (MAD)?
Solve: 4(2/3x+3)=15
What is 9/8 or 1 1/8?
This branch of mathematics studies the relationships between sides and angles of triangles:
What is trigonometry?
Before being discovered by a telescope, this planet's existence was first theorized using math alone, based on the gravitational effect it had on its neighbors.
What is Neptune?
This term refers to a way of writing very large numbers, like 7 times 10 to the 13th.
What is scientific notation?
This is a measurement of a data set's incline when displayed on a graph.
What is slope?
To solve an algebraic equation like 4/7x=8, you multiple both the 4/7x and 8 by this of the fraction.
What is the reciprocal?
This is the mathematical study of rates of change and accumulation:
What is calculus?
This number goes on forever, and it represents the relationship between a circle's circumference and its diameter.
What is pi?