Math Vocab 2

Question 1

What is approximate?

Answer 1

Not exact, but close enough to be reasonably correct

Question 2

What are coins?

Answer 2

Metal currency, as opposed to paper currency = pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters

Question 3

What is a composite number?

Answer 3

A whole number that has more than two factors.

Question 4

What does consecutive mean?

Answer 4

Question 5

What is a decade?

Answer 5

a period of ten years

Question 6

What is a deposit?

Answer 6

to put money or some other valuable for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account

Question 7

What is a diagonal?

Answer 7

Question 8

What is a diagram?

Answer 8

A chart or graph usually used to illustrate a concept or describe the relationship of parts to a whole.

Question 9

What is the difference?

Answer 9

Answer to a subtraction problem, how far it is between two numbers.

Question 10

What is a digit?

Answer 10

Any one of these ten symbols, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

We use them to make numbers/

Question 11

What is division?

Answer 11

One of four operations where you cut, share or divide a number or amount into equal amounts.

Question 12

What is a dollar sign?

Answer 12

a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars

Question 13

What is a face?

Answer 13

Question 14

What is a fact family?

Answer 14

Question 15

What is Fahrenheit?

Answer 15

Like Celsius, the system we use to measure temperature. A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees

Question 16

What is first?

Answer 16

Question 17

What is fourth?

Answer 17

Number 4 in a line or group.

In fractions, one of our four equal parts - 1/4.

Question 18

What is fewer?

Answer 18

less or a smaller number of something. The opposite of more.

Question 19

What is hundredth?

Answer 19

1 out of 100. Also the place to the right of the tenths place.

Question 20

What does intersect mean?

Answer 20

Question 21

What is a kilogram?

Answer 21

Equals 1000 grams - a metric unit for mass.

Question 22

What is a line graph?

Answer 22

Question 23

What does measurement mean?

Answer 23

Question 24

What does miles per hour mean?

Answer 24

How many miles you can go in 1 hour, the rate of speed you move.

Shown as mph as in 50 mph

Question 25

What is nearest?

Answer 25

Something that is the least amount of distance away.

Question 26

What is a number sentence?

Answer 26

a math problem, including an equal sign. Might have the answer (24 + 36 = 60) or might include variables (like X + 36 = 60)

Question 27

What is a milliliter?

Answer 27

Question 28

What is a million?

Answer 28

1,000,000 or 10 times 100,000.

Question 29

What is an operation?

Answer 29

add +, subtract -, multiply x, divide ÷

Question 30

What are parallel lines?

Answer 30

Question 31

What is a parallelogram?

Answer 31

(ie: Rectangle, square, rhombus, & diamond are parallelograms)

Question 32

What is a percent?

Answer 32

Question 33

What are perpendicular lines?

Answer 33

Question 34

What is a polygon?

Answer 34

Question 35

What is a prime number?

Answer 35

Question 36

What is a product?

Answer 36

Question 37

What does quarter past mean?

Answer 37

15 minutes past the hour; 3:15 is 15 minutes or a quarter past three o'clock

Question 38

What is a quarter to or quarter til?

Answer 38

15 minutes before the hour; 2:45 is fifteen minutes to 3:00

Question 39

What is a ray?

Answer 39

Question 40

What is a rectangular prism or solid?

Answer 40

A 3-dimensional shape.

Question 41

What is a right angle?

Answer 41

Question 42

What are similar shapes?

Answer 42

shapes that are the same shape, but different sizes

Question 43

What does scale mean?

Answer 43

Question 44

What does a math sign mean?

Answer 44

symbol; +, -, x, /

Question 45

What is a square inch?

Answer 45

a unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square

Question 46

What is subtraction?

Answer 46

The act of taking something away or finding the difference or how far apart two numbers are.

Question 47

What is a subtrahend?

Answer 47

Question 48

What is the surface?

Answer 48

Question 49

What is a symbol?

Answer 49

a letter, figure, or sign used in mathematics, science, music, to stand for something else or to represent a quantity

Question 50

What is a thousand?

Answer 50

Question 51

What is a thousandth?

Answer 51

Also, the place in between the hundredths and the ten thousandths.

Question 52

What is a ton?

Answer 52

Question 53

What are unifix cubes?

Answer 53

Question 54

What is value?

Answer 54

How much a digit really is: the value of the 7 in 734 is 700 the value of the 3 is 30 and the vaule of the 4 is 4 ones.

Question 55

What is vertical or vertical lines?

Answer 55

Question 56

What is weight?

Answer 56

How heavy something is, measured in pounds, ounces, grams or kilograms

Question 57

What is zero?

Answer 57

A number that is neither positive nor negative; 0

Question 58

What is a quantity?

Answer 58

Question 59

What is the diameter of a circle?

Answer 59

The distance from one point on a circle through the center to another point on the circle. It is also the longest distance across the circle. And it is twice the radius.

Question 60

What is a radius in a circle?

Answer 60

The distance from the center to the circumference of a circle It is half of the circle's diameter.