Math Vocabulary
Math Vocabulary #2
Properties
Geometry
Word Problems
100

What is a product?

What is the product of 3 and 4?

The answer to a multiplication problem. 3 x 4 = 12

100

What is a number sentence?

An equation using numbers and symbols.


4 + 1 = 5

7 x 8 = 56

100

Give an example of the Commutative Property with the numbers 4 and 5.

 4 + 5 = 5 + 4

5 x 4 = 5 x 4

100

What is a polygon?

A closed shape made up of straight line segments.

100

Dennis made a cake and cut it into 8 pieces. What fraction of the area of the whole is each piece?

1/8 UNIT FRACTION

200

What is a factor?

The numbers multiplied to get a product.

200

What is an equation?

A number sentence

5 x 5 = 25

10 - 5 = 5

200

Compute

(4 x 2) + (3 x 3) =

17

200

What is a quadrilateral?

A 4 sided polygon

200

Gerry is painting a wall that is 10 feet long and 8 feet wide.  In square feet, what is the area of the wall?

80 square feet

300

What is a quotient?


The answer to a division problem

300

What does it mean to "estimate"?

Round. If it doesn't say 10s or 100s, round to the 10s!

300

(4 x 3 ) x 2 is equal to which TWO of the following expressions?


A) 6 x 4

B) 9 x 2

C) 12 x 2

D) 16 x 2

A and C

300

Name two quadrilaterals that have 4 equal sides.

Rhombus and square

300

Pedro is putting a fence around his dog's rectangular play pen. The length is 7 feet and the width is 4 feet.  How many feet of fencing does he need to buy?

22 feet (perimeter)

400

What is standard form?

Write the standard form of five hundred three

Just the number with digits. (usual way)

503

400

Whats a difference?

Find the difference of 9 and 2.

The answer to a subtraction problem


9-2 = 7

400

What is a fact family?

What is the multiplication/division fact family for 6, 7 and 42.

6 x 7 = 42

7 x 6 = 42

42    7 = 6

42     6 = 7

400

What is a parallelogram? Is a rhombus a parallelogram?

A polygon with 2 pairs of parallel sides. A rhombus is a parallelogram.

400

Eduardo is painting a picture that has an area of 40 square inches.  The length of the picture is 5 inches. What is the width?

8 inches

500

What is expanded form?

Write the expanded form of 437.

A number written as the sum of the hundreds, tens and ones.

400 + 30 + 7


500

What are multiples?

All the products for a certain factor.


Example: The multiples of 5 are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25...

500

Terry is trying to figure out 5 x 5 but she can't figure it out. How could she find the product by using the distributive property?

She can draw a 5 x 5 array and break it up into two smaller arrays. Example:( 2 x 5) + (3 x 5) = 25

500

Give an example of a quadrilateral that is not a parallelogram.

Trapezoid

500

Carol completed 2/6 of her project. Thomas completed 1/3 of his project. Who completed more?

Neither. 2/6 and 1/3 are equivalent fractions.