Algebra Vocab
The algebra tile that represents and unknown value times 1.
What is an x strip?
A triangle with 1 right angle.
What is a right triangle?
The number above the line in a fraction
What is a numerator?
A ratio which compares 2 different quantities.
What is a rate?
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
Parts of an expression that are added together.
What is a term?
This is the formula to find the area of a parallelogram.
What is bxh?
A number that consists of a whole number and a fraction.
What is a mixed number?
A rate where 1 of the quantities is 1.
What is a unit rate?
The largest desert on Earth.
What is Antartica?
Represents the number of units in an expression.
What is a constant?
This is the formula to the area of a triangle.
What is 1/2(bxh)?
2 fractions that have the same value.
What are equivalent fractions?
2 ratios that are equivalent.
What is proportion?
A bird that can't fly but can swim.
What is a penguin?
Represents a number of variables.
What is a coefficient?
A polygon with 4 congruent sides.
What is a square?
A fraction where the numerator is greater than the denominator.
What is an improper fraction?
2 ratios that must have the same value and the same units as each other.
What are equivalent ratios?
The layers of the Earth in order from outside to inside.
What are the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core?
Putting together similar terms.
What is combining like terms?
The formula to get the area of a trapezoid.
What is 1/2(b1+b2)xh?
A strategy to find equivalent fractions.
What is the big one?
Ratios that are equivalent but have different units.
What is a scale?
This is the hottest place on Earth.
What is Death Valley?