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Chapter 1
Variables, Expressions, and Integers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Numerical Expression | Consists of numbers and operations |
| Variable | A letter used to represent one or more numbers |
| Variable Expression | Consists of numbers, variables, and operations |
| Evaluate | A variable expression, substitute a number for each variable and evaluate the resulting numerical expression |
| Verbal Model | Describes a problem using words as labels and using math symbols to relate the words |
| Power | Is the result of a repeated multiplication of the same factor |
| Base | The base is the big number |
| Exponent | The exponent is the small number in the top corner of the base |
| Order of Operations | To evaluate expressions involving more than one operation, mathematicians have agreed on a set of rules |
| Integers | Are the numbers...,-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3,...(The dots indicate that the numbers continue without end in both the positive and negative directions) |
| Negative Integers | Are integers that are less than 0 |
| Positive Integers | Are integers that are greater than 0 |
| Absolute Value | A number is its distance from 0 on the number line |
| Opposite | They have the same absolute values but different signs |
| Additive Inverse | The opposite of a number |
| Mean | The sum of the values divided by the numbers of values |
| Median | The middle value when the values are written in numerical order |
| Mode | The value that occurs most often |
| Range | The difference of the greatest value and the least value |
| Coordinate Plane | Formed by the intersection of a horizontal number line called the x-axis and a vertical number line called the y-axis. |
| Order Pair | Each point in a coordinate plane is represented by an ordered pair |
| Scatter Plot | Uses a coordinate plane to display paired data |