math vocabulary

math vocabulary words used in word problems and PSSA

created: 7 months ago by miner tags: commonly used words in math
Leitner-SystemStudy WorldReview All

Mean

Average--add up all the numbers and divide the answer by the number of numbers that were added.

Median

The middle number in a set of numbers.

Mode

The number that appears the most in a set of numbers.

Range

The difference between the least value and the greatest value in a data set of numbers

Difference

Subtract

Operations

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Inverse

Opposite

Order of operations

The specific order in which equations must be solved.

Product

Multiply

Quotient

Divide

Scale

The numbers that label your x and y axes.

sum

add

variables

Place holders in an equation, or a quantity that is changing.


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