Geometry
What is decomposition or decomposing?
How many miles per hour? This special ratio tells us how much we need of one quantity for one unit of another quantity.
What is a unit rate?
This is symbol, usually the letter x, used in place of an unknown number.
What is a variable?
The side length of a triangle used to find the area.
What is the height?
This word describes the amount of material needed to cover the faces of a 3 dimensional object.
What is surface area?
2 is better than 1 in the case of this word; a way to visually represent equivalent ratios.
What is a double number line?
What is a sign?
This number tells us how many of a variable there are in an expression. You can find it clinging to the variable.
What is a coefficient?
The amount of space taken up by a 3-dimensional object.
What is volume?
This word describes what a 3-dimensional shape would look like if you split it open and laid it flat. Stay away if you're a fish!
What is a net?
Did a cat write this? This keyword in the context of a problem tells us a rate for 1 of something.
What is per?
It's said that these attract. These are numbers that have the same absolute value but different signs.
What are opposites or opposite numbers?
_____ of Endearment. This word describes the parts of an operation that are added or subtracted together. "3x+4" has two of these.
What are terms?
A cube has 6 of these. A triangular prism has 5.
What is a face?
These word describes the place where two faces meet on a 3-dimensional shape.
What is an edge?
Don't get this confused with miles per hour! This word describes time per distance NOT distance per time.
What is pace?
The alligator eats the bigger number. This word describes a math sentence where one side has a greater or lesser value than the other.
What is an inequality?
Also seen in science. these two types of variables need each other. One of them determines the value of the other.
What are independent and dependent variables?
Not the fast food chain. This algorithm allows us to quickly divide fractions without tape diagrams.
What is KCF or Keep Change Flip?
If 2-dimensional shapes are polygons, 3-dimensional shapes with many faces are known as this word.
What is a polyhedron?
This visual model allows us to find equivalent ratios without having to skip count. No double number line needed here.
What is a tape diagram?
Above, below, or at sea level are words we use to measure this word; how high or low we are compared to sea level.
What is elevation?
Proven using the area of rectangles added or subtracted, this mathematical property allows us to expand or factor parenthetical expressions by multiplying the number on the outside of the parentheses by every term in the parentheses.
What is the distributive property?
An association between two or more quantities. The student to teacher one is really important to parents.
What is a ratio?