Quarter 3 Math Vocab

The distance a number is from zero on a number line. ALWAYS POSITIVE

• operations

• absolute value

• equation

• any number less than zero

on a number line, a number that is the same distance away from zero in the other direction - also known as the additive inverse

• opposite of a number

• any number greater than zero

• expression

All whole numbers (both positive and negative) and zero.

Examples: 5, -4, 37, -49, -218

• whole numbers

• repeating decimals

• integers

A decimal number that ends or terminates

• terminating decimal

• repeating decimal

• whole numbers

• natural numbers.

A decimal that repeats a digit or group of digits forever.

• terminatin decimal

• repeating decimal

• expression

• ordered pair

any number that can be written as a fraction

• expression

• coordinate plane

• rational number

a number and its opposite, which add to 0

• ordered pair

• repeating decimal

• zero pair

A mathematical sentence that shows that two expressions are equivalent (equal)

• expression

• operations

• variable

• equation

Any number greater than zero

• positive number

• negative number

• rational number

• irrational number

Any number less than zero

• positive number

• negative number

• rational number

• irrational number