Vocab 01

cube root

• A number that is multiplied 3 times by itself to form a product.

• A little dice thingy you roll around.

• The part of a tree that grows underground; it's in the shape of a cube.

• An unlikely event.

integers

• The amount of money charged for borrowing.

• The set of whole numbers and their opposites.

• A triangle with congruent sides.

• The sum of the areas of the faces of a solid.

irrational number

• A crazy number.

• An insane number.

• A number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers or as a repeating or terminating decimal.

• A number with whom it is useless to argue.

perfect cube (the mathematical definition)

• A cube that has no imperfections.

• A very pretty cube.

• A cube that makes no mistakes on a math test.

• A cube of a whole number.

perfect square (the mathematical definition)

• A square of a whole number.

• A very pretty square.

• A square with no imperfections.

• A square that makes no mistakes on a math test.

principal square root

• The person that runs a school.

• The nonnegative square root of a number.

• The main root of a tree, in the shape of a square.

• Something that happens only four times per year.

rational number

• A number with whom you can have a sane conversation.

• A parallelogram with four right angles.

• Any number that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers.

• Are radios going out of style?

real number (the mathematical definition)

• A number that is not fake.

• A number that tells it like it is.

• A number that rises to the tip of a cone.

• A rational or irrational number.

repeating decimal

• A decimal in which one or more digits repeat infinitely.

• A decimal that keeps saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over...

• All possible outcomes of an experiment.

• A triangle with no congruent sides.

square root (the mathematical definition)

• A tree root in the shape of a square.

• A root that is not round.

• A number that is multiplied by itself to form a product is called a square root of that product.

• A root that draws a square around a town, like Chico, on a map.