Algebra Lab Jeopardy

Calculations

100

What is the sum?

120 + 50 = 

170

200

What is the product?

100 (6) = 

600

300

What is the difference?

134 - 234 = 

- 100

400

What is the quotient?

150/3 = 

50

Variables

100

Give an example of a variable.

x, y, b... etc.

200

What is a variable?

A placeholder to represent an unknown value.

300

Solve for X:

X + 2 = 10

X = 8

400

Solve for B:

3B = 15

B = 5

Math Vocabulary

100

What is a multiple?

The result of multiplying numbers to make a bigger number.

200

What is a factor?

Numbers that we multiply to make bigger numbers.

300

How do you measure the perimeter of a shape?

Add the lengths of the sides.

400

What is an exponent?

An exponent says how many times we multiply that number by itself.

X^y

PEMDAS

100

What does PEMDAS stand for?

Parenthesis

Exponents

Multiplication

Division

Addition

Subtraction

200

What comes first:

Multiplication or Subtraction?

Multiplication

300

What do we solve first?

2(10 - 5) + 3 = 

10-5 because it is in the parenthesis

400

Solve:

(12 - 10)² +20 = 

Parenthesis: (12-10)

Exponent: (2)²

Addition: 4 + 20

= 24

???

100

If you triple a number, you multiply it by...?

3

200

Give an real life example of why we would need to measure a perimeter.

Building a fence, or any other example that uses length of the outside of a space or shape.

300

Name one of Ms. Nydia's classroom beanie babies.

Bok Choy or Psychodelic Orangutang

400

What is a key word that tells us to multiply numbers?

Product, double, times, per... etc.