Math Vocabulary

Shamajay Woods2-11-13

1st Period

Any rational number that can be expressed as the sum or difference of a finite number

of units, being a member of the set… -3, -2, -1, 0,1 ,2 ,3…

Integer

Any real number of the form alb, where a and b are integers and b is

not zero as 7 or 7/3.

Rational Number

A method of writing or displaying numbers in terms of a decimal number between 1

and 10 multiplied by a power of 10

Scientific Notation

An integer that is the square of an integer.

Perfect Square

Any real number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two numbers,

such as π.

Irrational Number

A number expressible as a limit of rational numbers.

Real Numbers

The quality or condition of being dense.

Density Property

Two angles that have the same vertex and a side in common.

Adjacent Angles

A numerical or constant factor in algebraic terms.

Coefficient

Any algebraic expression that gives the distance between two points in a particular coordinate system in a particular number of

dimensions.

Distance Formula

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

defined.

Domain

The side of a right triangle opposite right angle.

Hypotenuse

The side which shares the common/neighboring border to the

right angle in a triangle.

Legs of a right Triangle

A number that can be made by dividing one integer into another

Rational Number

Range

To arrange or dispose in a particular order, especially in rows or lines.

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes

with respect to a change in the abscissa.

Slope

a polyhedron having parallel, polygonal, and congruent bases and

sides that are parallelograms

Prism

Statistics a graph that plots along two axes at right angles to each other the

relationship between two variable quantities, such as height and weight

Scatter plot

the equation of a straight line in the form y = mx + b where m is the slope

of the line and b is its y-intercept

Slope intercept form