Equation Invasion
A letter used to represent a number.
What is a variable?
A number to the second power.
What is squared?
Replace letter with numbers.
What is substitution?
An equation that requires only one inverse operation to solve.
What is a one step equation?
The distance of a number from zero on the number line.
What is absolute value?
A number that stands by itself.
What is a constant?
A number to the third power.
What is cubed?
To make less complicated.
What is simplify?
The order in which operations are solved.
What is the order of operations?
A form of math where letters are used to represent numbers.
What is Algebra?
A number that stands with a variable.
What is a coefficient?
A small number located at in the upper right hand corner of a number. It shows the number of times the base is multiplied by itself.
What is an exponent?
Having the same weight on either side of an equation.
What is balance?
A mathematical statement with an equal sign to show both sides are equal.
What is an equation?
The answer when two numbers are multiplied together.
What is product?
A number, a variable, or the product of a number and a variable.
What is a term?
A procedure that a math problem must follow.
What is a rule?
A problem solving strategy that involves only looking at a problem.
What is inspection?
A combination of numbers, variables, constants, operations and grouping symbols but no equal sign.
What is an algebraic expression?
The answer when you divide one number by another.
What is the quotient?
Opposite or reverse operation.
What is an inverse operation?
Terms that have the same variable and corresponding exponents.
What are like terms?
Undoes multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.
What is division, multiplication, subtraction and addition?
The multiplicative inverse of a number.
What is a reciprocal?
Two numbers that are the same distance from zero on the number line.
What are opposites?