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Math Vocabulary
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100

The amount of space that an object covers. 

What is the area?

100

A rectangle has a length of 6 cm and a width of 4 cm. What is the area of the rectangle?

What is 24 square centimeters?

100

A quadrilateral has a length of 7 and a width of 6. What is the perimeter?

What is 26?

100

What does the word value mean?

How much a digit is worth?

100

Riley walked along the entire perimeter of a rectangular field measuring 10 meters by 8 meters to look for his lost keychain. How far does he walk?

What is 36 meters?

100

Orlando is going to complete 325 math problems by Friday.  He completed 96 on Monday and 72 on Tuesday.  How many does he have left to complete?

What is 157 problems? 

200

The distance around a figure or shape.

What is the perimeter?

200

What is the area of a square with sides measuring 7 inches?

What is 49 square inches.

200

What is the perimeter of a quadrilateral that has a length of 4 and a width of 5. 

What is 18 inches?

200

What is a product?

The answer to a multiplication problem.

200

The width of a rug is 4 feet. The length is 7 feet. How much floor space will the rug take up?

What is 28 square feet?

200

Skylar bought 24 donuts for the class. On the way to school she and her sister ate 10 of them. Luckily Mrs. Cohen brought in a dozen donuts.  How many donuts did Mrs. Cohen's class have to eat?

What is 26 donuts?

300

A polygon that has 4 equal sides.

What is a square? 

300

What is the area of a square measuring 8 m on each side?

What is 64 square meters?

300

A square has sides measuring 8 m. What is its perimeter?

What is 32 m?

300

Give an example of an equation using the zero property.

5 x 0

300

Ryan wraps tape around the top of a rectangular box measuring 30 cm by 18 cm. What is the length of the sticky tape he uses?

What is 96 cm?

300

Billy has 3 pages of math homework and 2 pages of reading homework. If each page has 8 problems, how many problems did he have to complete in total?

What is 40 problems? 

400

A shape that can be decomposed into more than one figure.

What is a composite figure? 

400

A rectangle has a length of 11 cm and a width of 5 cm. What is its area?

What is 55 square centimeters?

400

A square has sides measuring 10 feet. What is the perimeter?

What is 40 ft?

400

Give an example of an equation that demonstrates the associative property.

4 x 5 x 6 = 6  x 5 x 3

400

The width of a rectangular field is 50 m. The length is three times its width. What is the perimeter of the field?

What is 400 m?

400

The answer to a multiplication problem.

What is a product?

500

When finding area, in feet, this is how you would label your answer.

What is square feet?

500

What is the area of a rectangle with a length of 20 ft and a width of 3 ft?

What is 60 square feet?

500

What is the perimeter of a quadrilateral with a length of 4 and a width of 9?

What is 26?

500
Round 529 to the nearest ten.

530

500

The length of a carpet is 4 times that of the width. If the width is 2 feet, what is the area of the carpet?

What is 16 square feet?

500

True or False:  Perimeter is the measure of space inside a figure? 

What is false?