6th Grade Math Vocabulary Review

The two perpendicular lines of a coordinate plane that intersect at the origin.

• axes

• graph

• independent variable

• dependent variable

A mathematical sentence that shows that two expressions are equivalent.

• equation

• expression

• varaibles

• coefficients

A member of the set of whole numbers and their opposites. (...-3;-2;-1;0;1;2;3...)

• natural number

• rational number

• whole number

• integer

The numbers of an ordered pair that locate a point on a coordinate graph.

• variables

• integers

• constants

• coordinates

In statistics, the difference between the greatest and least values in a data set.

• mean

• median

• range

• mode

A value that does not change. Examples: -2; 5

• integer

• constant

• coefficient

• variable

The sum of the items in a set of data divided by the number of items in the set; also called average

• mean

• median

• mode

• range

The opposite of a number.

• multiplicative inverse

• additive inverse

• absolute value

• integer

The result when one number is subtracted from another.

• sum

• difference

• product

• quotient

A graph that shows how data are distributed by using the median, quartiles, least value, and greatest value

• line plot

• bar graph

• stem and leaf

• box plot (box & whisker plot)