PSSA Math Vocabulary Practice (Grades 3 & 4 )
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| An angle with a measure less than 90°. | Acute angle
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| Any number that is being added. | Addend
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| Time displayed on a timepiece having hour and minute hands. | Analog time
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| The measure, in square units, of the inside of a plane figure. | Area
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| A rectangular arrangement of objects in equal rows or columns. | Array
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| A group of items. Placing these items in a different order does not create a new combination. | Combination
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| A solid figure that has a circular base and one vertex. | Cone
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| Having the same size and shape.Congruent angles have the same measure.Congruent segments have the same length. | Congruent
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| A rectangular solid having six congruent square faces. | Cube
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| A three-dimensional figure with two circular bases, which are parallel and congruent. | Cylinder
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| The line segment where two faces of a solid figure meet. | Edge
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| Having the same value. | Equivalent
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| A variable, or any combination of numbers, variables, and symbols that represents a mathematical relationship (e.g., 24 x 2 + 5 or 4a – 9). | Expression
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| A plane figure that serves as one side of a solid figure. | Face
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| A set of related addition and subtraction, or multiplication and division equations using the same numbers (e.g., 6+9=15, 15-9=6, 9+6=15, 15-6=9). | Fact family
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| A whole number that divides evenly into another whole number (e.g., 1, 3, 5, and 15 are factors of 15). | Factor
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| A relation in which every input value has a unique output value. | Function
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| A polygon with 6 sides. | Hexagon
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| A mathematical sentence that contains a symbol that shows the terms on either side of the symbol are unequal (e.g., 3+4>6). | Inequality
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| A straight path extending in both directions with no endpoints. | Line
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| A line that divides a figure into two halves that are mirror images of each other. | Line of symmetry
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| A part of a line with two endpoints. | Line segment
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| The number found by dividing the sum of a set of numbers by the number of addends. | Mean (average)
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| The middle number in an ordered set of data, or the average of the two middle numbers when the set has two middle numbers. | Median
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| The number(s) that occurs most often in a set of data. | Mode
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| The product of a given whole number and another whole number (e.g., multiples of 4 are 4, 8, 12, 16….). | Multiples
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| An equation or inequality with numbers. | Number sentence
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| An angle with a measure more than 90º. | Obtuse angle
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| A polygon with 8 sides. | Octagon
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| A pair of numbers used to locate a point on a coordinate grid. The first number tells how far to move horizontally, and the second number tells how far to move vertically. | Ordered pair
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| Lines that never intersect and are always the same distance apart. | Parallel lines
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| A quadrilateral whose opposite sides are parallel and congruent. | Parallelogram
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| A polygon with 5 sides. | Pentagon
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| The distance around a figure. | Perimeter
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| Two lines, segments or rays that intersect to form right angles. | Perpendicular lines
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| A graph that uses pictures to show and compare information. | Pictograph
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| A solid figure with a polygon base and triangular sides that meet at a single point (vertex). | Pyramid
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| A polygon with 4 sides. | Quadrilateral
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| A part of a line that has one endpoint and continues without end in one direction. | Ray
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| A solid figure in which all six faces are rectangles. | Rectangular prism
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| A transformation that produces the mirror image of a figure. | Reflection (flip)
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| A parallelogram with four equal sides. | Rhombus
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| An angle that measures exactly 90º. | Right angle
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| A triangle that has a 90º angle. | Right triangle
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| A movement of a figure that turns that figure around a fixed point. | Rotation (turn)
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| A solid figure that has all points the same distance from the center. | Sphere
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| A table that uses tally marks to record data. | Tally chart
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| A movement of a figure to a new position without turning or flipping it. | Translation (slide)
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| A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides. | Trapezoid
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| A point where lines, rays, sides of a polygon or edges of a polyhedron meet (corner). | Vertex
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| The amount of space (in cubic units) that a solid figure can hold. | Volume (capacity)
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| A statement that two mathematical expressions are equal. | Equation
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