Vocabulary
A flat or two dimensional surface that extends into infinity.
What is a Plane?
Each of the pairs of opposite angles made by two intersecting lines.
What are Vertical Angles?
Two lines in the same plane which are equal distance from each other and never meet.
What are Parallel Lines?
Two lines which intersect at a 90 degree angle.
What are Perpendicular Lines?
Issac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently invented this branch of mathematics to solve problems or questions in physics.
What is Calculus?
A point which bisects a segment.
What is a Midpoint?
Will also accept Segment Bisector.
Two angles whose measurements add to 180°.
What are Supplementary Angles?
Two lines which are parallel have the same ________.
What is Slope?
Two lines which have slopes which are the opposite reciprocal of each other (negative reciprocal such as -5 and 1/5) are known as __________ _____
What are Perpendicular Lines?
The study of figures and elements developed and organized by the Greek mathematician Euclid.
What is Geometry or Euclidean Geometry?
The name for an angle with a measure greater than 90° and less than 180°.
Two angles whose measurements add up to 90°.
What are Complementary Angles?
The equation of a line parallel to
y = 8x - 1
in slope-intercept form.
What is y = 8x + b?
where b is any number of your choice
y = 8x + 5 or y = 8x - 5230 etc.
The equation of a line perpendicular to
y = 1/2x - 6
in slope-intercept form.
What is y = -2x + b
where b is any number of your choice
y = -2x + 5 or y = -2x - 5230 etc.
The term for the number 10 to the 100th power which is 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is a googol?
A ray which divides a given angle into two angles with equal measurement. (For example, a 50° angle cut into two 25° angles.)
A pair of angles which are outside the two parallel lines but on opposite sides of the transversal.
What are Alternate Exterior Angles?
The equation of a line parallel to
2x + y = 10
in slope-intercept form.
What is y = -2x + b
where b is any number of your choice
y = -2x + 5 or y = -2x - 5230 etc.
The equation of a line perpendicular to
-4x + y = 5
in slope-intercept form.
What is y = 1/4x + b
where b is any number of your choice
y = 1/4x + 5 or y = 1/4x - 5230 etc.
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the US space program is told in this 2016 movie.
What is Hidden Figures?
Lines which are not parallel and not coplanar.
What are Skew Lines?
The angles which occupy the same relative position at each intersection where a transversal crosses two other lines.
What are Corresponding Angles?
The equation of a line parallel to
y = -3/4x - 2
through the point (4, 4) in slope-intercept form.
What is y = -3/4x + 7
The equation of a line perpendicular to
y = 2/3x - 8
through the point (0, 5) in slope-intercept form.
What is y = -3/2x + 5
A number equal to the sum of its positive divisors excluding the number itself is known as a __________ number.
What is Perfect or a Perfect Number?
Examples are 6, 28, 496 and 8,128