Algebraic Expressions Vocabulary

Constants

100

Name the constant(s) in this expression: 3x+5y+2

What is 2?

200

Name the constant(s) in this expression: 15+2x-3+y

What is 15 and -3?

300

Name the constant(s) in this expression: 14x+2y-5+9+3r

What is -5 and 9?

400

Name the constant(s) in this expression: 15x+4y+2z

There is no constant in this expression.

500

Give the definition in you own words of a constant.

A number without a letter

Variables

100

Name the variable(s) in this expression: 2y+3x+7z

What is y, x, and z?

200

Name the variable(s) in this expression: 17x+2y+13x+14y+6

What are x and y?

300

Name the variable(s) in the following expression: 17a+12b+9

What are a and b?

400

Name the variable(s) in this expression: 17+9-0

There are no variables in this expression.

500

Define variable in your own words.

What is a letter representing an unknown number

Coefficients

100

Name the coefficient(s) in this expression: 3x+2y-4z+2

What is 3, 2, and -4?

200

Define in your own words what a coefficient.

A coefficient is the number next to the letter

300

Name the coefficient(s) in this expression: 2x+4x+5

What is 2 and 4?

400

Name the coefficient(s): -3x+2y-z

What is -3, 2, and -1

500

Why is 2x not a coefficient but 2 is?

A coefficient is only the number next to the letter

Terms

100

The number of terms that are in a trinomial.

What is 3?

200

The two symbols that separate terms.

What is + and -?

300

The number of terms are in the following polynomial: 2x+4y+3-2

What is 4?

400

Name the terms in the following polynomial: 3x-2y+7-3z

What is 3x, -2y, 7, -3z?

500

Name the terms in the following expression: 2q+9r-73n

What is 2q, 9r, -73n?