Types of Numbers
Counting numbers starting at 0.
What are Whole Numbers?
A decimal that ends.
What is a Terminating Decimal?
The number that tells how many times to multiply a base.
What is an Exponent?
A math phrase without an equals sign.
What is an Expression?
The number approximately equal to 3.14.
What is Pi?
Positive and negative whole numbers including 0.
What are Integers?
A decimal that repeats forever.
What is a Repeating Decimal?
The number that multiplies by itself to equal a given number.
What is a Square Root?
A letter used to represent an unknown number.
What is a Variable?
25, 144, and 81 are examples of this.
What is a Perfect Square?
Numbers that can be written as a fraction, integer, decimal that ends or repeats, or a perfect square.
What are Rational Numbers?
A number written as one number over another.
What is a Fraction?
The number that multiplies by itself three times.
What is a Cube Root?
Terms that have the same variable and exponent.
What are Like Terms?
27 is an example of this.
What is a Perfect Cube?
Numbers that cannot be written as a fraction and do not repeat.
What are Irrational Numbers?
A visual model used to show numbers in order.
What is a Number Line?
A number made by multiplying a number by itself.
What is a Perfect Square?
A number in front of a variable.
What is a Coefficient?
A number that goes on forever without repeating.
What is an Irrational Number?
All rational and irrational numbers together.
What are Real Numbers?
A decimal that can be written as a fraction.
What is a Rational Number?
A number made by multiplying a number by itself three times.
What is a Perfect Cube?
An operation that reverses another operation.
What is an Inverse Operation?
A number raised to the first power equals itself.
(Hint: It's a Law)
What is the Identity Exponent Law?