Test Taking Strategies
Measurement
Math Vocabulary
True or False
100

This is something you should use to show your work when taking the math SOL.

What is scratch paper?

100

This is the unit you would use to measure the lenght of a pencil.

What is inches?

100

This is the name for the answer to an addition problem.

What is a sum?

100

An acute angle is less than 90 degrees.

What is true?

200

These are answer options that are close but not quite right.

What are distractors?

200

You would use to find the distance around a basketball court.

What is perimeter?

200

Grandma baked 24 cookies. Her grandkids ate half of them, so there are 12 left. What is this answer called?

What is a difference?

200

When adding fractions it does not matter if they have different denominators.

What is false?

300

These are answer options that do not make sense for the question or are the worst choices?

What are nonsense answers?

300

To determine the amount of Cheerios a bag can hold, Emma must find this.

What is the volume?

300
On Ashley's turn in Multiplication Jenga she said that 6x6 is 36. What is this answer called?

What is a product?

300

The mode of a set of data is also called the average.

What is false? The median is also called the average.

400

This is something you should do to help yoruself slow down and make sure that you understand the question.

What is reading closely and carefully.

400

These are all of the units of capacity.

What are gallons, quarts, pints, and cups.

400

Josie knows that 64 divided by 8 is 8. What is the answer to this problem called?

What is a quotient?

400

The decimal equivalent of the fraction 3/4 is 0.75.

What is true?

500

These are things you should do the night and morning before taking the test.

What are getting a good night of sleep and eating a nutritious breakfast?

500

Mr. Brown is designing a new park and needs these two measurements to find the amount of grass and the amount of fencing needed.

What are area and perimeter?

500

This chart could show the number of pies sold at a bakery in one week. It's name comes from a plant.

What is a stem and leaf plot?

500

Based on the order of operations, you should solve the inside the parentheses first, then add.

What is false?

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