geometry
This three-sided polygon always has internal angles that add up to 180 degrees.
What is a triangle?
In the algebraic expression \(3x + 5\), this letter represents the unknown value.
What is a variable (or \(x\))?
This ancient Greek philosopher is famous for his theorem about right triangles, though he also ran a secret religious society.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the only even prime number.
What is 2?
If you flip a standard, fair coin, this is the exact percentage probability that it lands on heads.
What is 50%?
This mathematical constant, roughly equal to 3.14, represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi
In the standard linear equation formula \(y = mx + b\), the letter \(m\) represents this property of the line.
What is the slope?
This English scientist independently co-invented calculus in the 17th century and formulated the laws of motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This math term refers to the result you get when you multiply two numbers together.
What is a product?
In statistics, this term represents the average value, calculated by adding all numbers up and dividing by the total count.
What is the mean?
In a right triangle, this theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
This math rule states that you can multiply a sum by multiplying each addend separately, as in \(a(b + c) = ab + ac\).
What is the distributive property?
This French philosopher and mathematician created the \((x, y)\) coordinate grid system system we use today.
Who is René Descartes?
This acronym helps students remember the correct order of operations: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
What is PEMDAS?
This statistical term represents the number that appears most frequently in a given data set.
What is the mode?
This is the specific name for a polygon that has exactly eight sides, like a standard stop sign.
What is an octagon?
This algebraic formula uses \(a\), \(b\), and \(c\) to find the roots of any second-degree polynomial equation.
What is the quadratic formula?
This brilliant British codebreaker pioneered computer science and cracked the Enigma machine during World War II.
Who is Alan Turing?
This is the term for a whole number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller whole numbers.
What is a prime number?
If you roll a standard six-sided die, this is the fraction representing the probability of rolling an even number.
What is 1/2 (or 3/6)?
This geometric term describes two lines in the same plane that never intersect, no matter how far they extend.
What are parallel lines?
This is the value of the exponent when any non-zero number is raised to a power that results in an answer of 1.
What is zero?
This 19th-century German mathematician is often called the "Prince of Mathematicians" for his work in number theory and statistics.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
This modern number system, which uses only digits 0 through 9, was developed in India and spread globally by Persian mathematicians.
What is the Hindu-Arabic numeral system?
This bell-shaped curve represents a continuous probability distribution where data clusters symmetrically around the mean.
What is a normal distribution (or Gaussian distribution)?