Quarter 1 Vocabulary List
Quarter 1 Vocabulary List
1. Area – the amount of space inside a two-dimensional object.
2. Associative Property – allows numbers to be regrouped in an addition or multiplication problem.
3. Bar Graph – a graph that uses bars to compare data
4. Box-and-Whisker Plot – a graph that displays the median, quartiles, and extremes of a set of data using the number line.
5. Circle – a set of all points in a plane that are the same distance from a given point in the plane.
6. Circumference – the distance around a circle
7. Commutative Property – allows numbers to be reordered in an addition or multiplication problem.
8. Cone – a three-dimensional shape that has a vertex parallel to the circular base.
9. Cube – a three-dimensional figure whose face is a square.
10. Cylinder – a three-dimensional object whose base is a circle.
11. Denominator – the bottom number in a fraction.
12. Difference – the answer to a subtraction problem
13. Distributive Property – for any numbers a, b, and c, a(b + c) = ab + ac and
a(b – c) = ab - ac
14. Factors – terms that you multiply
15. Five number summary – for a data set, the numbers representing the minimum, maximum, first quartile, third quartile, and median.
16. Fraction – to name part of a whole; Also represents a division problem.
17. Greater Than – an inequality symbol that looks like >
18. Histogram – a graph that displays data from a frequency table over equal intervals and
there is no space between the bars.
19. Horizontal Axis – the x-axis on a coordinate graph
20. Identity Properties – for addition, a + 0 = a. for multiplication a · 1 = a
21. Improper Fraction – a fraction whose numerator is larger than the denominator.
22. Less Than – an inequality symbol that looks like <
23. Line Graph – a graph that is used to show trends or change over time
24. Mean – the average
25. Measures of Central Tendency – the mean, median and mode of a set of data.
26. Median – the middle number when the data is in numerical order.
27. Mixed Number – a number that consists of an integer and a fraction.
28. Mode – the value that occurs most often
29. Number Line – a line with equal distances marked off to represent numbers.
30. Numerator – the top number in a fraction.
31. Order of Operations – rules used to simplify an expression
32. Parallelogram – a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are parallel and congruent.
33. Percent – compares to 100
34. Perimeter – distance around a polygon
35. Pie Chart – a graph using a divided circle to represent the parts of a whole
36. Product – the answer to a multiplication problem
37. Pyramid – a three-dimensional shape whose faces are triangles and has one base.
38. Quotient – the answer to a division problem
39. Rectangle – a quadrilateral that has four right angles and opposite sides congruent.
40. Rhombus – a quadrilateral with four congruent sides
41. Scatterplot – two sets of data plotted as ordered pairs in the coordinate plane.
42. Sphere – three dimensional round figure
43. Square – a quadrilateral that has four right angles and four congruent sides.
44. Sum – the answer to an addition problem.
45. Surface Area – the total area of the surfaces of a solid figure.
46. Term – a product or a quotient of numbers and/or variables.
47. Triangle – a three-sided polygon
48. Venn Diagram – diagram that uses circles or ovals to show relationships between sets.
49. Vertical Axis – the y-axis on a coordinate graph
50. Volume – the amount of space inside a three-dimensional object
Metric Chart
k – kilo – 1000
h – hecto – 100
dk – deca – 10
d – deci – 1/10
c – centi – 1/100
m – milli – 1/1000
k – h – dk – meter – d – c – m
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Be able to correctly spell the following numbers.
0 zero
1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
12 twelve
13 thirteen
14 fourteen
15 fifteen
16 sixteen
17 seventeen
18 eighteen
19 nineteen
20 twenty
30 thirty
40 forty
50 fifty
60 sixty
70 seventy
80 eighty
90 ninety
100 one hundred
0.1 one tenth
0.01 one hundredth
0.001 one thousandth
0.0001 one ten-thousandths
0.00001 one hundred-thousandths
0.000001 one millionths
Remember when writing numbers such as 45 it is forty-five.
Remember that the decimal point is the word and.