MATHEMATICS VOCABULARY
Across
- 2. A ratio says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing. Ratios can also be shown as a fraction.
- 7. The distance of a number from zero
- 8. A pattern that you can cut and fold to make a model of a solid shape.
- 9. The "middle" of a sorted list of numbers when sorted least to greatest
- 15. In Algebra a term is either a single number or variable, or numbers and variables multiplied together.
- 16. A number that can be multiplied by another factor to get a product.
- 20. Multiplying a number by a group of numbers added together is the same as doing each multiplication separately.
- 22. P/E M/D A/S
- 23. The line on a graph that runs horizontally (left-right) through zero.
- 24. When the slope of an equation or line is equal to zero
- 25. Groups numbers into ranges. The height of each bar shows how many fall into each range.
- 26. A symbol for a value we don't know yet. It is usually a letter like x or y.
Down
- 1. The total area of the surface of a three-dimensional object.
- 3. A flat shape with straight sides. It has two pairs of equal-length adjacent sides.
- 4. When a quantity varies directly as the product of two or more quantities.
- 5. The line on a graph that runs vertically (top-bottom) through zero.
- 6. The greatest number that is a factor of all chosen numbers
- 10. We see that 1-out-of-3 is equal to 2-out-of-6 The ratios are the same, so they are in proportion.
- 11. The number placed before the variable in an expression.
- 12. A number with no fractional part (no decimals).
- 13. Any of the 4 areas made when we divide up a plane by an x and y axis
- 14. How much of something per 1 unit of something else.
- 17. Simply the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (and so on..)
- 18. The smallest positive number that is a multiple of two or more numbers.
- 19. A diagram showing Quartiles 1, 2 and 3, where the data can be split into quarters, in a box, with lines extending to the lowest and highest numbers.
- 21. Shorter way of multiplying a number by itself, by putting the number of times you are multiplying a number by itself to the top right of the number.