Fifth Grade Math Vocabulary

What is a composite number?

• A whole number greater than one with one and the number itself as factors

• A number that is even and never odd

• Any odd number

• A whole number greater than one with more than two factors.

What is a budget in which the total amount of money spent, saved, and shared equals total income?

• Expenses

• Profits

• Equal budget

• Balanced budget

Where is the origin on a coordinate plane?

• The point on a coordinate plane represented by the ordered pair (0,0)

• Any pair of numbers on a coordinate plane

• A horizontal number line on a coordinate grid

• A vertical number line on a coordinate grid.

What is a closed plane figure made of line segments?

• Shape

• Congruent

• Polygon

• Circle

What is the answer to a division problem?

• Quotient

• Product

• Difference

• Sum

To give an approximate value rather than an exact answer

• equation

• estimate

• subtract

• add

What is a quadrilateral that has exactly one pair of parallel sides?

• Rectangle

• Circle

• Trapezoid

• Hexagon

Money earned from doing work

• Candy

• Income

• Happiness

• Expense

What is the answer to a multiplication problem?

• Quotient

• Sum

• Difference

• Product

What triangle has two equal sides?

• Equilateral triangle

• Scalene

• Isosceles

• Right