Math Vocabulary

Math Vocabulary

By: Tytionna Williams

Integer

• The set of numbers containing zero, the natural numbers, and all the negatives of the natural numbers.

Rational Number

• A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers

Scientific Notation

• A method for writing extremely large or small numbers compactly in which the number is shown as the product of two factors

Perfect Squares

• Any number times its self

Irrational Number

• A number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

Real Numbers

• The combined set of rational numbers and irrational numbers.

Density Property

• The quality or state of being dense

Adjacent Angles

• Two angles that share both a side and a vertex.

Coefficient

• A constant that multiplies a variable

Distance Formula

• distance=(change in x)to the 2 power +(change in y)to the 2 power

Domain

• The set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

Hypotenuse

• The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle.

Legs of right Triangle

• In a right triangle, the sides opposite to the acute angles are called the Legs of a Triangle.

Range

• The difference between the largest and the smallest numbers in a data set.

Slope

• The steepness of a line expressed as a ratio, using any two points on the line.

Prism

• A solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.

Scatter Plot

• A graphical diagram with points plotted to show a relationship between two variables

Slop Intercept Form

• The equation of a straight line in the form y = (m)(x) + b where m is the slope of the line and b is its y-intercept