Math Vocab 2 Flashcards
What is approximate?
Not exact, but close enough to be reasonably correct
What are coins?
Metal currency, as opposed to paper currency = pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters
What is a composite number?
A whole number that has more than two factors.
What does consecutive mean?
What is a decade?
a period of ten years
What is a deposit?
to put money or some other valuable for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account
What is a diagonal?
What is a diagram?
A chart or graph usually used to illustrate a concept or describe the relationship of parts to a whole.
What is the difference?
Answer to a subtraction problem, how far it is between two numbers.
What is a digit?
Any one of these ten symbols, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
We use them to make numbers/
What is division?
One of four operations where you cut, share or divide a number or amount into equal amounts.
What is a dollar sign?
a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
What is a face?
What is a fact family?
What is Fahrenheit?
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
What is first?
What is fourth?
Number 4 in a line or group.
In fractions, one of our four equal parts - 1/4.
What is fewer?
less or a smaller number of something. The opposite of more.
What is hundredth?
1 out of 100. Also the place to the right of the tenths place.
What does intersect mean?
What is a kilogram?
Equals 1000 grams - a metric unit for mass.
What is a line graph?
What does measurement mean?
What does miles per hour mean?
How many miles you can go in 1 hour, the rate of speed you move.
Shown as mph as in 50 mph
What is a milliliter?
What are parallel lines?
What is a parallelogram?
(ie: Rectangle, square, rhombus, & diamond are parallelograms)
What is a percent?
What are perpendicular lines?
What is a polygon?
What is a prime number?
What is a product?
What does quarter past mean?
15 minutes past the hour; 3:15 is 15 minutes or a quarter past three o’clock
What is a quarter to or quarter til?
15 minutes before the hour; 2:45 is fifteen minutes to 3:00
What is a ray?
What is a rectangular prism or solid?
A 3-dimensional shape.
What is a right angle?
What are similar shapes?
shapes that are the same shape, but different sizes
What does scale mean?
What is a square inch?
a unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square
What is a subtrahend?
What is the surface?
What is a thousand?
What is a thousandth?
Also, the place in between the hundredths and the ten thousandths.
What is a ton?
What are unifix cubes?
What is vertical or vertical lines?
What is a quantity?
What is the diameter of a circle?
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.
What is a radius in a circle?
The distance from the center to the circumference of a circle
It is half of the circle’s diameter.
