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• Key Maths Words
• Can You Keep Up!

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• 3
• 2
• 1

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• Consecutive
• number in order along the number line ie. 2, 3,
  4, 5

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• Greater Than
• gt further right on the number line

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• Frequency
• the number of something

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• Parallel
• lines that never meet and are always the same
  distance apart

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• Graph
• a drawing that represents information

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• Equation
• two things that are equal

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• Less Than
• lt further left on the number line

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• Certain
• it will always happen

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• BODMAS
• Brackets, Order, Division, Multiply, Add, Subtract

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• Results
• the answer

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• Squared
• a number multiplied by itself eg. 2 x 2 4

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• Integer
• whole number

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• Axis
• the lines to the side and bottom of a graph

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• Median Average the middle number (when numbers
  are put in size order)

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• Divide
• how many times one number goes into a second
  number

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• Perpendicular another word for at right-angle

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• Positive
• (e.g. 6) numbers greater than zero

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• Difference gap between two numbers on the number
  line

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• Unknown
• a number that you dont know

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• Negative
• (e.g. -6) numbers less than zero

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• Subtract
• taking one number from another

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• Increase
• to get bigger

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• Brackets
• (always do the calculation in the brackets first)

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• Solution
• the answer

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• Equals
• ? numbers that are the same

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• Questionnaire a list of questions

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• Rotate
• moving an object about a point

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• Reflex
• an angle grater than 180 degrees

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• Algebra
• using letters as unknown numbers

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• Range
• the difference between the largest and smallest
  number

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• Method
• how you find your answer

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• Solve
• find the answer

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• Acute
• an angle less than 90 degrees

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• Mode Average
• most common answer

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• Coordinates two numbers that show position on a
  set of axis

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• Mean Average add them all up and divide by the
  number of numbers

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• Obtuse
• an angle between 90 and 180 degrees

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• Angle
• a measure of a turn

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• Multiply
• X - times together

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• Right-angle a 90 degree angle