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Math Talent Vocabulary Words
Question | Answer |
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Cirumference | The distance around the circle |
Input | The number of which a function machine performs one or more operations to produce an output |
Average | The sum of two or more quantities divided by the nnumber of quantities,the mean |
Trapezoid | A quadrilateral with one pair of opposite side parallel |
Ratio | A ratio comparing two quanities with different kinds of unit |
Variable | A symbol, usually a letter, used to represent a number |
Radius | The distance from the center of a circle to any point on the circle |
Fraction | Are of ten used to describe the relationship between part of a set of object and whole set |
Numerator | The top of part of the fraction |
Diameter | a line that goes through the center of the circle |
Denominator | The bottom part of the fraction |
Area | The number of square units needed to cover surface enclosed by geometric figure |
Decimal | A numbers that have digits in the tenths place and beyond |
Equation | A mathmatical sentence that contains an equal sign |
Perimeter | The distance around any closed geometric figure |
Percent | A ratio that compares a number to 100 |
Proportion | An equation stating that two ratio or rates are equivalent |
Communtatice Property | The order in which numbers are added or multiplied does not change the sum or product |
rate | Ratio comparing two quantities with different kinds of units |
Absolute Value | A number's distance from zero on the number line, indicated by drawing a bar on each side of the number |
Central Angle | The angle subtended at the center of a circle by the given points on the circle |
Volume | The space occupied by a solid, measured in cubic units |
Associative Property | This property applies both to mutiplication and addition and states that you can group serval numbers that are being added or mutiplied in any way and yield the same value |
Chord | A segment inside a circle with end points that lie in the circumference |
Arc | Any segment of the circumfernce of a circle |
Integers | A whole number, it can be positive or negative |
Output | Anything that comes out of a computer |
Storage | The capacity of a device to hold and retain data |
Processing | The logic circuitry that responds to and processes the basic instructions that drive a computer. |
Random-access memory (RAM) | A form of computer data storage |
Read-only memory (ROM) | A class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices |
Electronics | The branch of science and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components |
Software | The programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them |
Hardware | The mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical devices comprising a computer system, as the CPU, disk drives, keyboard, or screen |
Computer | An electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations |
Binary | A computer language that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1 |
Transistor | A semiconductor device that amplifies, oscillates, or switches the flow of current between two terminals |
Z3 | An electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine |
Buses | A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another |
Circuit Board | Used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate |
Charles Babbage | An English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer |
Microprocessor | All of the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit (IC, or microchip) |
Central Processing Unit | The portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, and is the primary element carrying out the computer's functions |
Apple II | One of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products |
ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) | The first general-purpose electronic computer. |
Conditional Statement | Features of a programming language which perform different computations or actions depending on whether a programmer-specified boolean condition evaluates to true or false |
Megahertz(MHz) | A unit of alternating current (AC) or electromagnetic (EM) wave frequency equal to one million hertz (1,000,000 Hz) |
Mark I | A electromechanical ASCC |
Analytical Engine | An important step in the history of computers, is a design for a mechanical general-purpose computer first described by English mathematician Charles Babbage in 1837 |