Math Vocabulary
What is a product?
What is the product of 3 and 4?
The answer to a multiplication problem. 3 x 4 = 12
What is a number sentence?
An equation using numbers and symbols.
4 + 1 = 5
7 x 8 = 56
Give an example of the Commutative Property with the numbers 4 and 5.
4 + 5 = 5 + 4
5 x 4 = 5 x 4
What is a polygon?
A closed shape made up of straight line segments.
Dennis made a cake and cut it into 8 pieces. What fraction of the area of the whole is each piece?
1/8 UNIT FRACTION
What is a factor?
The numbers multiplied to get a product.
What is an equation?
A number sentence
5 x 5 = 25
10 - 5 = 5
Compute
(4 x 2) + (3 x 3) =
17
What is a quadrilateral?
A 4 sided polygon
Gerry is painting a wall that is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide. In square feet, what is the area of the wall?
80 square feet
What is a quotient?
The answer to a division problem
What does it mean to "estimate"?
Round. If it doesn't say 10s or 100s, round to the 10s!
(4 x 3 ) x 2 is equal to which TWO of the following expressions?
A) 6 x 4
B) 9 x 2
C) 12 x 2
D) 16 x 2
A and C
Name two quadrilaterals that have 4 equal sides.
Rhombus and square
Pedro is putting a fence around his dog's rectangular play pen. The length is 7 feet and the width is 4 feet. How many feet of fencing does he need to buy?
22 feet (perimeter)
What is standard form?
Write the standard form of five hundred three
Just the number with digits. (usual way)
503
Whats a difference?
Find the difference of 9 and 2.
The answer to a subtraction problem
9-2 = 7
What is a fact family?
What is the multiplication/division fact family for 6, 7 and 42.
6 x 7 = 42
7 x 6 = 42
42 7 = 6
42 6 = 7
What is a parallelogram? Is a rhombus a parallelogram?
A polygon with 2 pairs of parallel sides. A rhombus is a parallelogram.
Eduardo is painting a picture that has an area of 40 square inches. The length of the picture is 5 inches. What is the width?
8 inches
What is expanded form?
Write the expanded form of 437.
A number written as the sum of the hundreds, tens and ones.
400 + 30 + 7
What are multiples?
All the products for a certain factor.
Example: The multiples of 5 are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25...
Terry is trying to figure out 5 x 5 but she can't figure it out. How could she find the product by using the distributive property?
She can draw a 5 x 5 array and break it up into two smaller arrays. Example:( 2 x 5) + (3 x 5) = 25
Give an example of a quadrilateral that is not a parallelogram.
Trapezoid
Carol completed 2/6 of her project. Thomas completed 1/3 of his project. Who completed more?
Neither. 2/6 and 1/3 are equivalent fractions.