Number System Vocabulary
This word describes a number like –3, 0, or 7 that has no decimal or fractional part.
What is an integer?
Which integer is greater: –2 or 3?
What is 3?
Which fraction is greater: 1/2 or 1/4?
What is 1/2?
Which is greater: 0.5 or 50%?
What is they are equal?
Absolute value describes the distance a number is from _____ on a number line.
What is zero?
This is what you call a number written with a decimal point, such as 4.5 or 0.32.
What is a decimal?
True or false: –8 > –5.
What is false? (Because –8 is less than –5.)
True or false: 3/8 < 1/2
What is true?
Put these numbers in order from least to greatest:
25%, 0.1, 1/2
What is 0.1, 25%, 1/2?
What is the absolute value of –7?
What is 7?
In a fraction, the top number is called this.
What is the numerator?
A diver is at –12 feet and another is at –7 feet.
Which diver is deeper?
Who is the diver at –12 feet?
Which fraction is closer to 1 whole: 5/6 or 7/8?
What is 7/8?
Which is the smallest: 0.75, 2/3, 70%?
What is 2/3?
True or false: The absolute value of any number is always positive.
What is true? (Except 0, which is neither positive nor negative.)
This term describes two fractions that represent the same value, like 1/2 and 2/4.
What are equivalent fractions?
Put these integers in order from least to greatest:
4, –1, –6, 0
What is –6, –1, 0, 4?
Put these fractions in order from least to greatest:
1/3, 3/4, 1/6, 2/5
What is 1/6, 1/3, 2/5, 3/4?
Order the following from greatest to least:
0.8, 3/5, 65%
What is 0.8, 65%, 3/5?
Two numbers have the same absolute value. One is –12. What is the other?
What is 12?
This is the name of the set of numbers that includes whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and integers.
What are rational numbers?
Arrange the integers from greatest to least:
–15, 9, –2, 9, 0
What is 9, 9, 0, –2, –15?
Order these fractions from greatest to least:
5/12, 2/3, 7/8, 3/4
What is 7/8, 3/4, 2/3, 5/12?
Put these rational numbers in order from least to greatest:
–0.6, 1/4, –35%, 0.2, 3/5
What is –0.6, –35%, 0.2, 1/4, 3/5?
Order these by least to greatest absolute value:
–15, 8, –3, 0, 10
What is 0, –3, 8, 10, –15?
(Absolute values: 0, 3, 8, 10, 15)