Algebra
This symbol is used to represent a value that is changing or unknown.
What is a variable?
A one dimensional collection of points extending infinitely in opposite directions is called this.
The first step when adding fractions is to ensure that they share this.
What is a common denominator?
This branch of mathematics is concerned with the utility of calculations.
What is applied mathematics?
Many early mathematicians and philosophers are from this country.
What is Greece?
Terms whose variables and exponents are the same have this name.
What are like terms?
The sum of the angles of a triangle equals this value.
What is 180 degrees?
This is the name given to a fraction whose numerator is greater than its denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
This electronic device performs mathematical calculations practically instantly.
What is a calculator?
This was the first tool invented as an aid for mathematical calculations.
What is the abacus?
This sequence of steps is often remembered by the acronyms PEMDAS and BODMAS.
What is order of operations?
A Greek mathematician used this equation to describe the relationship between the legs and hypotenuse of a right angled triangle.
Replacing x with this number will yield a pair of equivalent fractions:
2/3 = x/51
What is 34?
Often used in economics, the formula below is used to calculate this value:
(amount of increase/decrease)/(original amount) x 100
What is percentage change?
This mathematician and economist who contributed to the fields of differential equations, game theory and economics, is most famously known for his equilibrium regarding non-cooperative games.
Who is John Nash?
The set containing zero and all the positive and negative whole numbers has this name.
This is the name given to the drawing of a geometric object using a compass, ruler and protractor.
What is a construction?
Rewriting 60% as a reduced fraction yields this value.
What is 3/5?
This constant, equal to 6.02214076 x 1023, is the number of unit in one mole of a substance.
What is Avogadro's number?
NASA used this nickname for the men and women who spent their days performing calculations by hand to aid in the space missions.
What are human computers?
For any function y = f(x), the value of x which yields a function value of zero is called this. (more than one possible answer)
What is a root?
or
What is a zero?
or
What is an x-intercept?
This 2 dimensional figure is the locus of all the points that are equidistant from a center point.
What is a circle?
This type of number cannot be expressed as the ratio of two values.
What is an irrational number?
When the sine waves of the frequencies of musical notes are out of sync they are discordant notes played in unison, which is described with this musical term.
What is dissonance?
This mathematician and physicist invented calculus concurrently, yet independently, with Gottfried Leibniz, although it was Leibniz's notation that is still in use today.
Who is Isaac Newton?