Math Vocabulary

6. Getting every term containing the variable on one side of the equation.
7. Multiply each addend seperately then add the product
9. A symbol for a number we don´t know yet. It is usually a letter like x or y
11. a fixed value. In algebra, a constant is a number on its own, or sometimes a letter such as a,b, or c to stand for a fixed number
13. a number used to multiply a variable

1. seek to find what a series of terms have in common and then take it away, dividing the common factor out from each term
2. Another name for Reciprocal. What you multiply by a number to get 1
3. What you add to a number to get zero. The negative of a number.
4. to reduce the effect of (something) : to be equal to (something) in force or importance but have an opposite effect
5. Numbers, symbols & operators (such as + and x) grouped together that show the value of something.
8. the answer to something.
10. says that two things are equal. It will have an equal sign (=)
12. either a single number or vriable or numbers and variables multiplied together