Thursday, March 1, 2012

Some interesting maths related vocabulary we've used this year

Here are a few. Can you add to them? We are touching on these at present. Don't despair, we'll delve deeper later in the year.

intrinsic (motivation), extrinsic (motivation),
digits, Roman numerals,
Hindu-Arabic numerals, Fibonacci,
binary, base numerals,
Pythagorus, patterns,
decimals, ordinal value,
cardinal number, congruent,
equidistant, parallel,
vertical, horizontal,
oblique, estimation
approximation rounding
factors product
addend sum
equal equivalent

4 comments:

  1. Mr Priest,This is a good website on binary facts: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numbbase.htm.

    From Madison

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  2. Mr Priest I do have another word
    Congruent

    From Emily

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  3. Mr Priest I love the words that we are learning it's like a whole new lanuage to learn

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  4. Mr Priest, This is also a great maths website with cool kids maths games and more plus it is run by a group of students:
    www.coolmath-games.com/ ! I hope you enjoy it!

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