Math Vocab 3 Flashcards

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What is a decimal point?

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A symbol used to separate dollars from cents in money, and to separate the ones place from the tenths place in a decimal

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What is an acute angle?

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3
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What is altitude?

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4
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What is a bar graph?

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5
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What is capacity?

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Same as volume.

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6
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What is a base?

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7
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What is change?

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8
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What is circumference?

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the distance or length around a circle or the perimeter of a circle

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9
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What are compatible numbers?

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10
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What is a coordinate point?

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11
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What is a cubic unit?

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12
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What is a cubic unit?

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13
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What is data?

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a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

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14
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What is a decameter?

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15
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What is a decimeter?

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16
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What is east on a coordinate grid?

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17
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What is equivalent?

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equal in amount or value

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18
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What is an expanded numeral?

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19
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What is a greatest common factor?

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Let’s say you have two numbers like 9 and 15. What is the greatest or highest factor that they both share or have in common? The answer is 3. 3 is a factor of both 9 and 15.

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20
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What is a coordinate grid?

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21
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What is a hundred million?

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100,000,000

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22
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What is a hundred thousand?

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100,000

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23
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What is the hundredths?

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24
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What does an inverse operation mean?

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Opposite operations that undo each other; add and subtract are inverse. Multiply and divide are inverse.

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25
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What is a kite (in math)?

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26
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What does less likely mean?

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an event that does not have a good chance of happening, between 0 percent and less than 50 percent.

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27
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What does lowest common denominator mean?

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28
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What is a magic square - in MATH not in Magic or from a Wizard?

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29
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What is mass?

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The amount of matter or schtuff in an object. Can sometimes equal weight.

30
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What is the maximum?

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31
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What does miles per gallon mean?

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the distance traveled in a vehicle powered by one gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel

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What is a milligram?

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33
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What is a millimeter?

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34
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What is the minimum?

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the smallest possible quantity or amount

35
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What does mirror image mean?

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36
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What is a mixed number?

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37
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What is a multiple?

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38
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What does negative mean?

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39
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What does north mean?

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40
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What is a number cube?

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A fair cube that has numbers on the faces (e.g.- dice)

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What is an obtuse angle?

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42
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What is an octagon?

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An 8-sided shape

43
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What is an ordered pair?

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44
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What is the origin?

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Where the X and Y Axis meet on a coordinate grid. We call it (0,0)

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What is an oval?

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46
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What is a pentagon?

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47
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What is a plane?

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48
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What is positive?

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numbers greater than zero

49
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What is probability?

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how likely something is to happen.

50
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What is proportion?

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Two ratios or fractions that are equal. 1/3 = 2/6 so they have the same proportion.

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What is a quadrilateral?

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52
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What is rectangular?

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having four right angles and two sets of congruent and parallel sides

53
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What is a rectangular box?

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a 3-dimensional shape with faces that are rectangles. Also known as a rectangular prism.

54
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What does regroup mean?

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55
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What is a regular polygon?

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56
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What does rename a number mean?

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give a new name to, to show a number another way; to show place value, 28 can be renamed as 2 tens + 8 ones

57
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What is a rhombus?

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58
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What does rule mean?

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What happens with a pattern for example 4, 8, 12 (+4) or
44, 33, 22 (-11) or 4, 12, 36 (x3)

59
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What is a sequence?

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a series of numbers that go in order 2, 4, 8, 16 or
27, 23, 19, 15.

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What does skew mean?

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61
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What is a square number?

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62
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What is a standard numeral?

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numbers written in standard notation; number like 201, 4732, 68

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What is straight?

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64
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What is symmetrical?

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65
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What is ten thousands?

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the place value of the missing digit 1_5,498

66
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What is a trapezoid?

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67
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What does triple mean?

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an amount or quantity that is three times as great as another

68
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What does triple mean?

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an amount or quantity that is three times as great as another

69
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What is a twist?

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To turn in the opposite direction or 180 degrees.

70
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What is volume?

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Same as capacity.

71
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What is a unit fraction?

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Any fraction that has 1 as its numerator. ½, ⅓, ¼, 1/5 are all unit fractions.