Algebra 1 Unit 1 Vocabulary (Springboard)

Sequence

• An equation written using symbols that describes the relationship between different quantities.

• The set of numbers that makes an inequality true

• a list of number called terms

• Inequalities joined by the word "or"

Common Difference

• The common amount between terms in a sequence

• All sides have the same measurement

• Two inequalities joined by the word "and" or by the word "or"

• items that follow after each other in order

Variable

• A letter or symbol used to represent an unknown quantity

• Inequalities joined by the word "and"

• Items that follow each other in order

• distance from a number to the origin on a number line

Equilateral

• a mathematical phrase containing numbers, variables and operations

• An equation with more than one variable and the equation can be solved for a specific variable

• All sides have the same measurement

• All points on a number line that makes the inequality true

Solution

• An equality involving the absolute value of variable

• Any value that makes an equation true when substituted

• A list of numbers called terms

• A letter or symbol used to represent an unknown quantity

Formula

• An equation written using symbols that describes the relationship between different quantities

• Interval between two number typically shown with vertical lines or set notation

• An equation involving the absolute value of variable expression

• a mathematical statement that shows that two expressions are equal

Literal Equation

• Any value that makes an equation true when substituted

• An equation with more than one variable and the equation can be solved for a specific variable

• all points on a number line that makes the inequality true

• Inequality joined by the word "or"

Graph of an inequality

• A list of numbers called terms

• The shape made by two rays extending from a common end point, the vertex

• by a specified amount in or for every hundred

• All points on a number line that make the inequality true

Solutions of an inequality

• a mathematical phrase containing numbers, variables, expressions

• the set of numbers that makes an inequality true

• a letter or symbol used to represent an unknown

• The relationship between two sets in which each element of one set has one assigned element in the other set

Compound Inequality

• Two inequalities joined by the word "and" or the word "or"

• All sides have have the same measurement

• An equality involving the absolute value of a variable expression

• A portion of a line that has a defined beginning and end