2nd Year Maths Christmas Key Words

What does the word area mean?

• The amount of surface covered by a shape

• The distance around the edge of a shape

• The space occupied by a 3D shape

• Part of a circle

What are perpendicular lines?

• Lines that will never meet

• Lines that start at one point and continue on through another point

• Lines that intersect at a 90 degree angle

• The lines between the centre of a circle and a point on the circle

What is the hypotenuse?

• The distance around the edge of a triangle

• The angle in a right angles triangle that is equal to 90 degrees

• The name for an angle less than 90 degrees

• The longest side of a right angled triangle

What is a slope?

• A measure of how steep a line or line segment is

• The middle point on a line that is equal distant from both end points

• The area of a triangle

• The distance between two points

What is an axiom?

• The number attached to a variable

• A statement that is taken to be true

• A statement that has been proven to be true

• The vertical or horizontal lines that make up a graph

What is a theorem?

• A statement that you assume to be true

• A list of statements

• A statement that has been proven to be true

• A line which touches a circle at only one point

What does evaluate mean?

• Find the value of an expression when you are given the value of the variable(s)

• Solve for an unknown variable

• Simplify the expression

• Add and subtract like terms

What does the word equidistant mean?

• Line connecting the centre of the circle to the outer part of a circle

• This is part of a circle that is bound by two radii and an arc

• A line that splits an angle into two parts

• Two objects at equal distance from each other

What is a straight angle?

• An angle equal to 360 degrees

• An angle greater than 180 degrees

• An angle that is equal to 180 degrees

• An angle less than 90 degrees

What does solve mean?

• To add and subtract like terms

• To find the value of an unknown variable

• Find the value of an expression when you are given the value of the variable(s)

• Simplify the expression