Rational Exploration:Numbers and their Opposites
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| Absolute value | The distance between a number and zero on the number line.
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| Cartesian Coordinate Plane | A plane containing two perpendicular axes (x and y) intersecting at a point called origin (0,0).
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| Coordinates | An ordered pair, (x,y) that locates a point in a plane.
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| Distance | Amount of separation between 2 points.
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| Integers | The set of whole numbers and their opposites {...-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3...}.
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| Magnitude | Greatness in size or amount
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| Negative numbers | The set of numbers less than zero
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| Opposite number | Two different numbers that have the same absolute value. Example:
4 and -4 are opposite numbers because both have an absolute value of 4.
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| Ordered Pair | A pair of numbers, (x,y) , that indicate the position of a point on the
Cartesian coordinate Plane.
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| Origin | The point of intersection of the vertical and horizontal axes of a Cartesian coordinate plane. The coordinates of the origin are (0, 0).
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| Positive number | The set of numbers greater than zero.
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| Quadrant | One of the four regions on a Coordinate plane formed by the intersection of the x-axis and the y-axis.
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| Rational number | The set of numbers that can be written in the form a/b where a and b are integers and b is not equal to 0.
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| Sign | a symbol that indicates whether a number is positive or negative. Example: in -4, the (-) sign hows this number is read “negative four”.
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| x-axis | The horizontal number line on the Cartesian coordinate plane.
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| x-coordinate | The first number of in ordered pair; the position of a point relative to the vertical axis
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| y-axis | The vertical number line on the Cartesian coordinate plane
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| y-coordinate | The second number in an ordered pair; the position of a point relative to the horizontal axis
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