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Math Talent Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |