Words that name parts of an equation
What do you call the answer to an addition equation?
Sum
What do you call a shape with no curved lines, and at least three sides that join straight lines at vertices?
Polygon
What do you an angle that is smaller than 90 degrees (corner of a square)?
acute angle
What is the word for the top number in a fraction, that tells you how many pieces you have?
numerator
What do you call the numbers you are multiplying in a multiplication equation?
factors
What do you call the answer to a subtraction equation?
The difference
What do you call a four sided polygon?
Quadrilateral
What do you call an angle that is larger than 90 degrees?
obtuse angle
What do you call the bottom number of a fraction, that tells you how many pieces the whole is broken into?
denominator
If you skip count by a number, those numbers are called.....?
multiples
What do you call the answer to a multiplication equation?
Product
What do you call two lines that run side by side and will never cross?
Parallel lines
What do you call a triangle that has three different length sides?
scalene triangle
How do you show one whole as a fraction?
by using the same number for the numerator and the denominator
What do you call the numbers that a larger number is divisible by?
factors
What do you call the answer to a division equation?
Quotient
What do you call two lines that cross each other at a 90 degree angle?
Perpendicular lines
What do you call a triangle that has two sides and angles that are the same size?
isosceles triangle
What do you need to find in order to find two fractions that do not have the same denominator?
common denominator
What do you call the number that you are dividing by in a division equation?
divisor
What do you call an unknown quantity, represented by a letter, in an equation?
Variable
What do you call a six-sided polygon?
Hexagon
What do you call a triangle that has all equal length sides and angles?
equilateral triangle
What do you call any fraction that has 1 as the numerator?
a unit fraction