Weeks 1-3
To determine an approximate value
What is an estimate?
Able to be divided by a whole number without a remainder
What is divisible?
An international system of measurement based on multiples of ten.
What is the metric system?
A statement that uses the symbol = to show that two quantities are equal
What is an equation?
The total outside area of a geometric solid
What is surface area?
A number from which another number is subtracted. It is the 'greater' number in the problem.
What is a minuend?
What are prime numbers?
A whole number and a fraction together
What is a mixed number?
The space occupied by a geometric solid
What is volume?
A fraction whose denominator of 100 is expressed as a % sign
What is a percent?
What is power?
An endless connection of mathematical points
What is a curve?
A = 1/2 B x H
What is the formula for the area of a triangle?
if a=b, then c-a=c-b
A method of writing a number as the product of a decimal number and a power of 10
The set of counting numbers, their opposites, and zero; the member of the set {-2, -1, 0, 1, 2}
What are integers?
A bar drawn over digits in a decimal number to indicate that the digits repeat endlessly
What is a vinculum?
The opening that is formed when two lines, rays, or segments intersect
What is an angle?
An expression that contains radical signs, V, which indicate roots of a number
What is a radical expression?
An equation that equates two ratios
What is a proportion?
One of two or more numbers that are added to find a sum
What is an addend?
Delete (an equal factor) from both sides of an equation or from the numerator and denominator of a fraction.
What is cancelling?
A comparison of the magnitude of two numbers
What is a ratio?
In common use, the number that multiplies the variable(s) in an algebraic term.
(If no number is present, assume the number to be 1).
What is a coefficient?
The product of the numerator of one fraction and the denominator of another
What is cross product?