Math Vocabulary Project

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Math Vocabulary Project

By: J’amezz Martin

Integer

• A whole number; a number that is not a fraction.

Rational Number

• A number that can be written as a fraction.

Scientific Notation

• Where a number is written in two parts:

First: just the digits (with the decimal point placed after the first digit),

Followed by: ×10 to a power that would put the decimal point back where it should be.

Perfect Square

The product of a rational number multiplied by itself.

• a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number.

Irrational Number

Real Numbers

a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.

Also called real .

Density Property

The density property tells us that we can always find another real number that lies between any two real numbers

Adjacent angles

• angles that have a common ray coming out of the vertex going between two.

• A numerical or constant quantity placed before and multiplying the variable in an algebraic expression

Coefficient

Distance Formula

• which is used to find the distance between two points is called the

Distance Formula.

Domain

domain of a function is the set of "input" or argument values for which the function is defined

Hypotenuse

• The longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle.

Legs of a right Triangle

• a triangle in which one angle is a right angle

(that is, a 90-degree angle).

Rational Number

• any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers

range of a set of data is the difference between the largest and smallest values.

Range

Slope

• The slope of a line in the plane containing the x and y axes is generally represented by the letter m, and is defined as the change in the y coordinate divided by the corresponding change in the x coordinate, between two distinct points on the line. This is described by the following equation

• A solid geometric figure whose two end faces are similar, equal, and parallel rectilinear figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

Prism

Scatter plot

• type of mathematical diagram using

Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data.

Slope intercept form

• The slope-intercept form is one way to write a linear equation

(the equation of a line). The

slope-intercept form is written as y = mx+b

Absolute Value

• The magnitude of a real number without regard to its sign. The absolute value of a complex number a 2 + ib

Exponent

• The exponent of a number shows you how many times the number is to be used in a multiplication.

It is written as a small number to the right and above the base number.

Pythagorean Theorem

• square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other...

Product

• product is the result of multiplying.

Acute Triangle

• Less than 90° - all three angles are acute and so the triangle is acute

Probability

• The extent to which something is probable

Factor

• numbers you can multiply together to get another number

Variable

• A variable is a symbol that stands for a value that may vary; the term usually occurs in opposition to constant

Evaluate

• to determine or set the value

Quotient

• The answer after you divide one number by another dividend ÷ divisor = quotient

Acute Angle

• an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees.

Congruent

• Identical in form.

Reciprocal

• A mathematical expression or function so related to another that their product is one; the quantity obtained by dividing the number one

Vertex

• The highest point; the top or apex.

Polygon

• A plane figure with at least three straight sides and angles, and typically five or more.

Diameter

• A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a body or figure, esp. a circle or sphere.

• Adding two numbers and getting the answer is the sum.

Sum

Dividend is the number to be divided.

Dividend

Divisor

• Is the number that divides the dividend in a division problem.

Median

• The middle number in a number set.

• The mean is the average.

Mean

• is the most frequently occurring value in a data set

Mode

Pyramid

• A pyramid is a solid figure with a polygon base and all other faces triangles that meet at a common vertex.

Quadrilateral

• A polygon with four sides.

Parallelogram

• A four-sided plane rectilinear figure with opposite sides parallel.

• A parallelogram having four rectangles.

Rectangle

Reflection is the change in direction of a wave front at an interface between two different media

Reflection

Rate is a ratio that compares two quantities

Rate

Trapezoid

• A trapezoid is a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides.

Cylinder

• A surface or solid bounded by two parallel planes and generated by a straight line moving parallel to the given planes.

• A plane figure with eight straight sides and eight angles.

Octagon

• A plane figure with five straight sides and five angles.

Pentagon

• A triangle with a right angle.

Right Triangle

• an equilateral parallelogram, including the square as a special case.

Rhombus

Lowest Terms

• Simplest form; when the GCF of the numerator and the denominator of a fraction is 1.

X-axis and Y-axis

• Y axis: The vertical axis in a coordinate system.

• X axis: The horizontal axis on a coordinate plane.

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