Math Vocabulary
What is a sum?
Answer to an addition problem. All together
What is a main character?
The character that the story is mainly about.
What is a habitat?
A natural home where an animal or plant lives.
What is culture?
The shared language, food, arts, beliefs, and customs of a group of people.
What does it mean to have control?
Managing your body, voice, and choices when big feelings happen.
What is a difference?
Answer to a subtraction problem.
What is the setting?
Where the story or book takes place.
What is matter?
Anything that has mass and takes up space. Examples: a rock, a person, a building, an animal
What is heritage?
The traditions, beliefs, and values passed down from people who lived before us.
What is concentrating?
Focusing your attention on one task or speaker.
What is a product?
Answer to a multiplication problem.
What is a noun?
Person, place, and thing.
What is gravity?
An invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. Like the invisible force pulling us down to Earth.
What is a landmark?
A famous or special feature of a place.
What does it mean to be determined?
Keeping on trying even when something is hard.
What is a quotient?
Answer to a division problem.
What is a verb?
An action word like running, jumping, moving.
What is precipitation?
Water that falls from clouds to the ground (rain, snow, sleet, or hail).
What is a community?
A place where people live, work, and play together.
What is empathy?
Understanding and caring about how someone else is feeling.
What does PEMDAS stand for?
Parentheses
Exponents
Multiply
Division
Addition
Subtraction
What is an adjective?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Examples: Colorful, pretty, fragrant, sticky.
What is a solid, liquid, and gas?
Solid: matter that can keep it's own shape. Ex. Ice cube, or a rock.
Liquid: Matter that flows and takes the shape of its container. Ex. Juice or soda.
Gas: Matter that spreads out to fill the whole space available. Ex. Water vapor/steam.
What is a consequence?
The result of a choice or action; can be positive or negative.
What is collaboration and inclusion?
Collaboration is working together nicely to solve a problem or reach a goal.
Inclusion is making sure everyone feels welcome and part of the group.