Math Notebook

Question 1

What is the formula for area?

Answer 1

Area = Length x Width (A = L x W).

Question 2

What is area?

Answer 2

The number of square units that cover a 2D region without any gaps or overlaps.

Question 3

What is a parallelogram?

Answer 3

A type of quadrilateral that has two pairs of parallel sides.

Question 4

What is an edge?

Answer 4

A straight side of a polygon.

Question 5

What is a polyhedron?

Answer 5

A closed, three-dimensional shape with flat sides. When we have more than one polyhedron, we call them polyhedra.

Question 6

What is a base (of a prism or pyramid)?

Answer 6

A face of a polyhedron.

Question 7

What does “cubed” mean?

Answer 7

To the third power.

Question 8

What is a ratio?

Answer 8

An association between two or more quantities.

Question 9

What is the definition of
“unit price”?

Answer 9

The cost for one item.

Question 10

What is a coefficient?

Answer 10

A number that is multiplied by a variable.

Question 11

What is critical thinking?

Answer 11

The process of analyzing information to make informed decisions.

Question 12

What is an exponent?

Answer 12

A number that tells you how many factors to multiply.

Question 13

What is a dependent variable?

Answer 13

A result of a calculation.

Question 14

What is a rational number?

Answer 14

A fraction or the opposite of a fraction.

Question 15

What is categorical data?

Answer 15

A set of data that are words instead of numbers.

Question 16

What is a statistical question?

Answer 16

A question that can be answered using data that has variability.

Question 17

What is a histogram?

Answer 17

A way to represent data on a number line (grouped by ranges).

Question 18

What is a median?

Answer 18

A number in a data set that is the center of the data set (middle number).

Question 19

When do you use Mean/MAD?

Answer 19

1. When the data distribution is symmetrical.
2. No outliers.

Question 20

What is the formula for the area of a triangle?

Answer 20

A = 1/2 x b x h (1/2 x base x height)

Question 21

What is a region?

Answer 21

The space inside the shape.

Question 22

What is a base (of a parallelogram or triangle)?

Answer 22

Any side of the parallelogram or triangle.

Question 23

What is a polygon?

Answer 23

A closed, two-dimensional shape with straight sides and do not cross each other.

Question 24

What is a prism?

Answer 24

A polyhedron that has two bases that are identical copies of each other. the bases are connected by rectangles or parallelograms.

Question 25

What is a face?

Answer 25

A flat side of a polyhedron.

Question 26

What does "squared" mean?

Answer 26

"To the second power."

Question 27

What are equivalent ratios?

Answer 27

Two ratios that are equivalent if you multiply the numbers by the same factor.

Question 28

What does the term "same rate" mean?

Answer 28

Two situations that have equivalent ratios.

Question 29

What does the term "solution to equation" mean?

Answer 29

A number that can be used in place of the variable to make the equation true.

Question 30

What is an independent variable?

Answer 30

A variable that is used to calculate the value of another variable.

Question 31

What is a dot plot?

Answer 31

A way to represent data on a number line.

Question 32

What is the definition of variability?

Answer 32

Having different values.

Question 33

What is IQR (interquartile Range)?

Answer 33

A way to measure how spread out a data set is.

Question 34

When do we use Median/IQR?

Answer 34

1. When the data distribution is skewed (unbalanced, not symmetrical). 2. Clear outliers.

Question 35

What is the formula to find the area of a parallelogram?

Answer 35

A = h x b

Question 36

What is the definition of compose?

Answer 36

"Put together" or put more than one shape together to make a new shape.

Question 37

How do you find the height of a parallelogram or triangle?

Answer 37

The shortest distance from the base of the shape to the opposite side. (Will be perpendicular to the base.)

Question 38

What is a quadrilateral?

Answer 38

A type of polygon that has 4 sides.

Question 39

What is a pyramid?

Answer 39

A type of polyhedron that has one base. All the other faces are triangles, and all meet at the same vertex.

Question 40

What is a net?

Answer 40

A two-dimensional figure that can be folded to make a polyhedron.

Question 41

What does the term "per" mean?

Answer 41

"for each".

Question 42

What does "pace" mean?

Answer 42

How fast something is moving.

Question 43

What is a variable?

Answer 43

A letter that represents a number.

Question 44

What is numerical data?

Answer 44

A set of data that has numbers.

Question 45

What does "center" mean?

Answer 45

The value in the middle of the distribution. (typical value).

Question 46

What does quartile mean?

Answer 46

A section in which you divide a data set into FOUR sections that each have the same number of values.

Question 47

Which of the following are measures of center? A. Mean B. Median C. MAD D. IQR

Answer 47

(A, B) Mean, Median

Question 48

What does decompose mean?

Answer 48

"take apart" or take a shape apart to make more than one new shape.

Question 49

What is a vertex?

Answer 49

A point where two or more edges meet.

Question 50

What does the term "speed" mean?

Answer 50

How fast something is moving.

Question 51

What does the term "spread" mean?

Answer 51

How far apart the values are.

Question 52

Which of the following are measures of variability? A. Mean B. MAD C. Median D. IQR

Answer 52

(B, D) MAD, IQR

Question 53

When are the Mean and Median similar?

Answer 53

When the data values are symmetrical.

Question 54

When are the Mean and Median NOT similar?

Answer 54

When the data values are unusually high or low in value.

Question 55

How do you find range?

Answer 55

Subtract the smallest value from the largest.

Question 56

What is "mode"?

Answer 56

A value that appears most often.