15 Math Terms(:

By: Tenecia McCoy

Decimals

• Are the things that you line up.• For Example- you have $5.97• That’s a decimal number. If you are adding

money, line them up.

Proportion

• A proportion is something you compare in a fraction or number. This can be used in many different ways.

• Example-

Integers

• The absolute value that has distance from zero.

• Example- (-7) + (-5) = (-12)

Pythagorean Theorem

• The theorem that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Two Step Equations

• A type of equation that solves for a letter.• An expression or a proposition, often algebraic

asserting the equality of two quantities.

Scientific Notation

• A method for expressing a given quantity as a number having significant digits necessary for a specified degree of accuracy, multiplied by 10 to the appropriate power.

Percents %

• Percent of 100 • Also called per centum.

Box and Whisker

• A graph that displays the highest and lowest quarters. As whiskers the middle two of the data as the box and the median.

Cute bunny Whiskers

Stem and Leaf Plot

• Shows data arranged by place value.

Line Plots

• Using a number line using X’s

Square Roots

• A quantity of which a given quantity is the square.

• The square root of 69 is 8 something.

Ratios

• The relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of ties the contains the second.

• Example- 3 to 4 or 3:4

Scale Factor

• When a shape is being increased or decreased in size, each side is being multiplied by a scale factor If scale factor is greater than 1, the shape gets bigger.

Perimeter

• Add all the sides