8th Grade Math Vocabulary

Side by side angles

• Alternate Interior Angles

• Adjacent Angles

• Vertical Angles

• Supplementary Angles

Congruent angles outside the parallel lines

• Alternate Interior Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Adjacent Angles

• Alternate Exterior Angles

Congruent angles inside the parallel lines

• Complementary Angles

• Alternate Interior Angles

• Vertical Angles

• Alternate Exterior Angles

2 angles who add up to 90 degrees

• Complementary Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Supplementary Angles

• Vertical Angles

Angles in the same location

• Complementary Angles

• Vertical Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Supplementary Angles

D = RT (plug in known, solve for missing)

• Pythagorean Theorem

• Distance, Rate, Time

• Slope-Intercept Form

• Scientific Notation

Longest side of a right triangle (c in pythagorean theorem)

• Hypotenuse

• Leg

• Perfect Square

• y-intercept

2 shorter sides of a right triangle (a and b in pythagorean theorem)

• Unit Rate

• Hypotenuse

• Scatter Plot

• Legs

• Slope-Intercept Form

• Non-Linear Equation

• Rational #

• Linear Equation

Has a whole # square root (ex: 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100,...)

• Linear Equations

• Irrational #

• Perfect Square

• Pythagorean Theorem