Math Vocab 3

Question 1

What is a decimal point?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is an acute angle?

Answer 2

Question 3

What is altitude?

Answer 3

Question 4

What is a bar graph?

Answer 4

Question 5

What is capacity?

Answer 5

Same as volume.

Question 6

What is a base?

Answer 6

Question 7

What is change?

Answer 7

Question 8

What is circumference?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What are compatible numbers?

Answer 9

Question 10

What is a coordinate point?

Answer 10

Question 11

What is a cubic unit?

Answer 11

Question 12

What is a cubic unit?

Answer 12

Question 13

What is data?

Answer 13

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

Question 14

What is a decameter?

Answer 14

Question 15

What is a decimeter?

Answer 15

Question 16

What is east on a coordinate grid?

Answer 16

Question 17

What is equivalent?

Answer 17

equal in amount or value

Question 18

What is an expanded numeral?

Answer 18

Question 19

What is a greatest common factor?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

What is a coordinate grid?

Answer 20

Question 21

What is a hundred million?

Answer 21

100,000,000

Question 22

What is a hundred thousand?

Answer 22

100,000

Question 23

What is the hundredths?

Answer 23

Question 24

What does an inverse operation mean?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What is a kite (in math)?

Answer 25

Question 26

What does less likely mean?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What does lowest common denominator mean?

Answer 27

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Question 29

What is mass?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is the maximum?

Answer 30

Question 31

What does miles per gallon mean?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What is a milligram?

Answer 32

Question 33

What is a millimeter?

Answer 33

Question 34

What is the minimum?

Answer 34

the smallest possible quantity or amount

Question 35

What does mirror image mean?

Answer 35

Question 36

What is a mixed number?

Answer 36

Question 37

What is a multiple?

Answer 37

Question 38

What does negative mean?

Answer 38

Question 39

What does north mean?

Answer 39

Question 40

What is a number cube?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What is an obtuse angle?

Answer 41

Question 42

What is an octagon?

Answer 42

An 8-sided shape

Question 43

What is an ordered pair?

Answer 43

Question 44

What is the origin?

Answer 44

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

Question 45

What is an oval?

Answer 45

Question 46

What is a pentagon?

Answer 46

Question 47

What is a plane?

Answer 47

Question 48

What is positive?

Answer 48

numbers greater than zero

Question 49

What is probability?

Answer 49

how likely something is to happen.

Question 50

What is proportion?

Answer 50

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

Question 51

What is a quadrilateral?

Answer 51

Question 52

What is rectangular?

Answer 52

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

Question 53

What is a rectangular box?

Answer 53

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

Question 54

What does regroup mean?

Answer 54

Question 55

What is a regular polygon?

Answer 55

Question 56

What does rename a number mean?

Answer 56

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

Question 57

What is a rhombus?

Answer 57

Question 58

What does rule mean?

Answer 58

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

Question 59

What is a sequence?

Answer 59

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

Question 60

What does skew mean?

Answer 60

Question 61

What is a square number?

Answer 61

Question 62

What is a standard numeral?

Answer 62

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

Question 63

What is straight?

Answer 63

Question 64

What is symmetrical?

Answer 64

Question 65

What is ten thousands?

Answer 65

the place value of the missing digit 1\_5,498

Question 66

What is a trapezoid?

Answer 66

Question 67

What does triple mean?

Answer 67

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

Question 68

What does triple mean?

Answer 68

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

Question 69

What is a twist?

Answer 69

To turn in the opposite direction or 180 degrees.

Question 70

What is volume?

Answer 70

Same as capacity.

Question 71

What is a unit fraction?

Answer 71

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