Math Vocab 1

Question 1

What is addition?

Answer 1

when you add one thing to another 3+4=7

Question 2

What does after mean?

Answer 2

a number that is greater than another number (6 comes after 5)

Question 3

What is an angle?

Answer 3

Question 4

What is area?

Answer 4

Question 5

What is the average or mean?

Answer 5

the middle or “central” value of a set of numbers. To calculate: add up all the numbers, then divide by how many numbers there are. Example: what is the average of 2, 7 and 9? Add the numbers: 2 + 7 + 9 = 18 Divide by how many numbers (i.e. we added 3 numbers): 18 ÷ 3 = 6 So the average or mean is 6

Question 6

What does before mean?

Answer 6

a number that is less than another number or in front of (The number 5 is less than and comes before 6.)

Question 7

What does Celsius mean?

Answer 7

The measurement we use to tell how hot or cold something is. It is often written as °C (Water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C)

Question 8

What does chance mean?

Answer 8

how likely it is that some event will occur

Question 9

What is a chart?

Answer 9

a visual display of information

Question 10

What is a clock?

Answer 10

Something that tells the time of day, by hour and minute.

Question 11

What is clockwise?

Answer 11

in the same direction - to the right - as the rotating hands of a clock

Question 12

What is congruent?

Answer 12

Question 13

What does cost mean?

Answer 13

the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

Question 14

What is a cup?

Answer 14

a United States liquid unit of volume or capacity equal to 8 fluid ounces

Question 15

What is a day?

Answer 15

How long it takes Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

Question 16

What is a degree?

Answer 16

a unit to measure temperature or an angle

Question 17

What is the difference?

Answer 17

Question 18

What is distance?

Answer 18

Question 19

What is divisible?

Answer 19

When you can divide one number by another with no remainder.

10 is divisible by 2 or 10/2=5

Question 20

What is a dozen?

Answer 20

a quantity of 12 items or units

Question 21

What is an equation?

Answer 21

Question 22

What is estimation?

Answer 22

The use of rounding and/or other strategies to determine a possible answer, without calculating an exact answer.

Question 23

What is a flip?

Answer 23

Question 24

What is a factor?

Answer 24

Question 25

What is a fact family?

Answer 25

Question 26

What is a foot?

Answer 26

a distance or linear unit of length equal to 12 inches

Question 27

What are fourths?

Answer 27

4 equal pieces of a whole

Question 28

What is a fraction?

Answer 28

Question 29

What is a gallon?

Answer 29

a liquid volume or capacity unit in the United States equal to 4 quarts or 128 ounces

Question 30

What is a geometric figure?

Answer 30

A polygon or closed shape or a solid figure

Question 31

What does half past mean?

Answer 31

30 minutes past the hour or half of the hour.

Question 32

What is height?

Answer 32

Question 33

What is hundreds?

Answer 33

Question 34

What is a kilometer?

Answer 34

a metric unit of distance or length equal to 1000 meters (or about half a mile)

Question 35

What is least?

Answer 35

The smallest number in a group of numbers

Question 36

What is less?

Answer 36

fewer or smaller amount (I have 3 mints, my friends have 4. I have less.)

Question 37

What is a line?

Answer 37

a straight path that extends without end in opposite directions

Question 38

What is a line segment?

Answer 38

Question 39

What is a line of symmetry?

Answer 39

Question 40

What is a liter?

Answer 40

A metric unit of volume or capacity.

Question 41

What does measure mean?

Answer 41

to use standard units to find out the size or quantity (length, breadth, height, area, mass or weight, volume, fluid volume, capacity, temperature and time.)

Question 42

What is a meter?

Answer 42

A metric unit of distance equal to 100 centimeters or about 3 feet long. A door knob is about a meter off the ground.

Question 43

What is a mile?

Answer 43

a unit of length or distance equal to 5,280 feet or 1760 yards

Question 44

What is multiplication?

Answer 44

repeated addition (ex. 5 x 4 = 20 or 4+4+4+4+4=20)

Question 45

What is a nickel?

Answer 45

Five cents of money.

Question 46

What is Noon?

Answer 46

the middle of the day 12:00 p.m.

Question 47

What does o'clock mean?

Answer 47

The time on the clock - 3:00 or three o'clock.

Question 48

What is an odd number?

Answer 48

A whole number ending with 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 in the ones place. When you divide an odd number by 2, there will always be one left over.

Question 49

What does ones mean?

Answer 49

Question 50

What does order mean?

Answer 50

putting objects, numbers or the alphabet to follow one after another (ex. a,b,c,d, or 13, 14, 15, 16)

Question 51

What is perimeter?

Answer 51

Question 52

What is a pint?

Answer 52

Question 53

What is a point?

Answer 53

Question 54

What is a quarter?

Answer 54

A U.S. coin worth 25 cents.

Question 55

What is a rate?

Answer 55

a comparision of two things, such as distance and time (ex. He drove 50 MPH. How many miles did he drive in 3 hours?)

Question 56

What is rotation?

Answer 56

Question 57

What does round mean?

Answer 57

To estimate a number to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand, making it easier to add, subtract, multiply or divide.

Question 58

What is a row?

Answer 58

Question 59

What is a second?

Answer 59

Coming next after first, or 1/60 of a minute.

Question 60

What is a set?

Answer 60

A group of numbers (3, 5, 7)

Question 61

What is a seventh?

Answer 61

Question 62

What is a side?

Answer 62

The outer edge or surface of a shape.

Question 63

What is a slide?

Answer 63

Question 64

What is the smallest?

Answer 64

The least in size or value.

Question 65

What does solve mean?

Answer 65

find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

Question 66

What is a sum?

Answer 66

Question 67

What is symmetry?

Answer 67

Question 68

What is a tablespoon?

Answer 68

a unit of measure for volume of capacity, used for measuring liquids or powders (abbreviated tbsp.)

Question 69

What is taller?

Answer 69

greater in height than another object

Question 70

What is a teaspoon?

Answer 70

a unit of measure for volume of capacity, used for measuring liquids or powders (abbreviated tsp.) Smaller than a tablespoon 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon.

Question 71

What does tens mean?

Answer 71

Question 72

What does ten thousand mean?

Answer 72

the place value of ten thousand (ex. the 2 is in the ten thousands place 24,398)

Question 73

What is a tenth?

Answer 73

Question 74

What are thirds?

Answer 74

Question 75

What is a turn?

Answer 75

Question 76

What is a unit?

Answer 76

Can also be the unit we use to measure or count something - feet, grams, pounds.

Question 77

What is width?

Answer 77

Question 78

What are whole numbers?

Answer 78

Question 79

What is a yard?

Answer 79

Question 80

What is a year?

Answer 80

A unit of measure of 365 or 365 days to count how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun.

Question 81

What is a denominator?

Answer 81

The number below the line in a fraction. The denominator tells you how many equal parts are in the whole.

Question 82

What is the numerator?

Answer 82

The number above the fraction line. It tells you how many equal parts are described by the fraction. Like 1/2 means a numerator of 1 out of a denominator of 2.