MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS AND SENTENCES Flashcards
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OPERATION TERMS
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- pus, the sum of, increased by, total, added to
- minus, the difference of, decreased by, subtracted by
- multiplied by, the product of, times
- divided by, the quotient of, per
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OPERATION SYMBOLS
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x, ( ), *
÷, /
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MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION
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consists of TERMS that are COMBINED by using MATHEMATICAL OPERATION such as ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION
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NUMERICAL COEFFICIENT
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[5]x + 4
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LITERAL COEFFICIENT
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5[x] + 4 ‘the variable itself’
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CONSTANT
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5x + [4] ‘any single number’
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EQUATION
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4x + 3 = 9
6y - 5 = 55
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INEQUALITY
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15x - 5 < 3y
18 > 16.5
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OPEN SENTENCE
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mathematical sentence is NOT known whether TRUE or FALSE
‘NEED DEPENDENCIES’
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CLOSED SENTENCE
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KNOWN to be either TRUE or FALSE
‘EASILY EVALUATED’
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MATH SYMBOL
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context
convention
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CONTEXT
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refers to ‘particular’ TOPICS being STUDIES
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CONVENTION
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each ‘particular’ SYMBOL has a ‘particular’ MEANING
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