Math Vocab 1
This term is used for a letter in math.
What is a variable?
This math operation is implied by the use of the word "combined".
What is addition?
This math operation is implied by the use of the word "difference".
What is subtraction?
This math operation is implied by the use of the word "split".
What is division?
When a problem is phrased like "eight groups of six", this math operation is implied.
What is multiplication?
This term is used to denote any value less than zero.
What is a negative?
This term is used for the top segment of a fraction.
What is the numerator?
This term is used for the bottom segment of a fraction.
What is the denominator?
This term is used to describe that two mathematical values are the same.
What is equal?
This term is used when determining the total length around the outside of a shape.
What is the perimeter?
This term is used to denote the center of a coordinate plane.
What is the origin?
This term is used to describe the value that "raises by x power".
What is an exponent?
This term is used for a number that can only be divided by one and itself.
What is a prime number?
This term is used to describe a number "attached" to a variable.
What is a coefficient?
This term is used for any positive or negative whole number, including zero.
What is an integer?
This term is used to describe a fraction out of 100.
What is percent / percentage?
This term is used for the four "areas" of a full coordinate grid.
What are quadrants?
This term is used when two shapes have the same size and angles.
What is congruent / congruence?
This term is used to denote the longest side of a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
This term is used in a division problem to note which number is the one doing the dividing.
What is the divisor?
This term is used when it describes two or more angles forming a 180° angle.
What are supplementary angles?
This term is used to describe the distance a number is from zero.
What is absolute value?
This term is used to describe the length of the boundary surrounding a circle.
What is circumference?
This term is used to describe the value or problem on each separate side of an equation.
What are expressions?
This term is used to describe any number that can be written as a fraction or is a repeating decimal.
What is a rational number?
This term is a category term used to describe three types of transformation where an object can move or change its orientation, but does not change its size or shape.
What is a rigid motion?
This term is used to describe a number which divides another number exactly.
What is a factor?
This term is used to describe any number that cannot be written as a fraction or is a non-repeating decimal.
What is an irrational number?
This term is used to describe the relationship, as an equation, of a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This property of math is used to describe the ability to change the position of any numbers in a purely addition or purely multiplication problem. (ie. 1+2+3 = 2+3+1)
What is the commutative property?