Keywords
This word represents the final result you get when you divide one number by another.
What is a quotient?
If you add a number and its exact opposite together, like 8 and -8, you will always get this number.
If you want to know if a graph shows a proportional relationship, you look for a perfectly straight line that starts exactly at this point, also known as (0,0).
What is the origin?
You can only add or subtract terms together - like 3x and 5x - if they share the exact same variable. We call these matching pieces this two-word name.
What are like terms?
If an event has a probability of 0 or 0%, we describe it using this word because it will definitely never, ever happen.
What is impossible?
This is a ratio where you compare something with exactly ONE of something else - like "miles per hour" or "cost per slice of pizza".
What is a unit rate?
It's the math word for how far away a number is from zero on a number line, and it's the reason the answer is always positive.
What is absolute value?
If you buy a $10 pizza and want to leave a 20% tip for the delivery driver, this is the amount of money you leave just for the tip.
What is $2.00?
This is the name of the property you use when you take a number sitting right outside a set of parentheses and multiply it by everything inside.
What is the distributive property?
To find the measure of center, you have to line all your data points up from smallest to largest and find the number sitting right in the middle.
What is the median?
This is the name for the number that sits in front of a letter in an expressions. For example, it's the "7" in 7x.
What is a coefficient?
Whenever you multiply or divide two negative numbers together, your final answer will always be this sign.
What is positive?
In a proportional equation like y=5x, the number 5 is the unit rate, but it's official math name is "constant of" this word.
What is proportionality?
If a word problem says "five less than a number", this is the correct way to write it as an expressions using the letter x.
What is x-5?
If you roll a standard six-sided die, this is the probability that you will roll a number greater than 4.
What is 2/6 or 1/3?
When you make a larger or smaller copy of a shape, this two-word terms tells you exactly what number you multiplied by to change the size.
What is the scale factor?
If the temperature outside is 5 degrees, and it drops 8 degrees overnight, this is the new temperature in the morning.
What is -3 degrees?
If you are running on a track and complete 1/2 of a mile in 1/4 of an hour, this is your speed in miles per hour.
What is 2 miles per hour?
To solve a two-step equation like 2x+3=13, this is the very first math operation you need to do to both sides.
What is subtract 3?
Theoretical probability is what should happen. But this type of probability is based on the math of what actually happens when you run a test or play a game.
What is experimental probability?
In probability, this two-word term refers to the complete set of all possible outcomes for an experiment.
What is the sample space?
When turning fractions into decimals, a fraction like 1/4 becomes a decimal that stops (0.25), but a fraction like 1/3 becomes this kind of decimal.
What is a repeating decimal?
If a cool $60 hoodie goes on sale for 25% off, this is the final sale price you will pay at the register before tax.
What is $45.00?
When solving an inequality, you have to flip the greater-than or less-than symbol completely around if you do this to both sides.
What is multiply or divide by a negative number?
If a random survey shows that 2 out of 5 students have a pet dog, you can predict that this many students have a dog out of a total school population of 500.