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Math Words
Math vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The answer to subtraction problem | Difference |
| The answer to an addition problem | Sum |
| They are the same distance from zero on the number line | Opposites |
| A picture of a straight line on which every point is assumed to correspond to a real number and every real number to a point | Number Line |
| The distance that a number is from zero on a number line | Absolute value |
| Going from left to right | Horizontal |
| Going up to down | Vertical |
| Whole numbers and their opposites | Integer |
| One of a pair of numbers whose sum is zero | Additive Integers |
| A number that can be written as a fraction | Rational |
| Any integer greater than zero | Positive Integer |
| Any integer less than zero | Negative Integer |
| Multiply everything inside the parenthesis by the number in front of the parenthesis | Distributive Property |
| When a fraction is written in simplest forms | Lowest Terms |
| Top number of a fraction | Numerator |
| Bottom number of a fraction | Denominator |
| A number by which another number, the dividend, is divided | Divisor |
| A number multiplied with another number | Factor |
| The answer to a division problem | Quotient |
| The answer to a multiplication problem | Product |
| When something comes to an end | Terminating |
| Combine all like terms that can be combined and get rid of parenthesis to cut down on the number of terms in an expression | Simplify |
| Two numbers whose product is 1 | Reciprocals |
| A ratio of two numbers representing part of a whole | Fraction |
| A number written with place value instead of fractions or mixed numbers | Decimal |
| Accounting number (1,2,3) | Natural Number |
| A number without a fraction or decimal, beginning with zero (0,1,2,3) | Whole Number |
| Natural number that is not divisible by two | Even Number |
| A number that cannot be written as a fraction (is the most famous one) | Irrational Number |
| Small number above and to the right of the base; tells how many times the base number is used as a factor | Exponent |
| Large, lower number in exponential notation, factor | Base |
| The expression under the radical sign | Radicand |
| One of two equal factors of a number | Square Root |
| A letter to represent a value | Variable |
| terms with exactly the same variable(s) with the same exponent | Like terms |
| A number, or group of numbers, written with operation signs (+,-,x,/) | Algebraic Expressions |
| Two expressions that are equal | Equation |
| One expression that is NOT equal to another | Inequality |
| A line that is the edge of a region of a graph of a linear inequality on a coordinate plane | Boundary Line |