Math Vocabulary Test

Like terms

Two or more terms that contain the same variables with corresponding variables having the same exponents.

Like terms

Terms with the same variable raised to the same power.

Constant

Terms without variables.

Coefficient

A number multiplied by variable.

Polynomial

A polynomial is an expression made with constants, variables and exponents, which are combined using addition, subtraction and multiplication, but not division

Trinomial

A polynomial of three unlike terms.

Monomial

A polynomial with only one term and can not have a variable in the denominator.

Linear

A polynomial with the highest degree of one.

Cubic

A polynomial with the highest degree of three.

Quadratic

A polynomial with the highest degree of two.

Prime

A terms whose only factor are one and itself.

Term

An algebraic expression that is a number, a variable or a product or quotient of numbers and variables.

Descending

Terms are arranged in order from highest degree to lowest.

Degree

The highest power of a variable in an expression.

Conjugate

The product of _____ binomials is a difference of two squares.

Factor

To write a quadratic expression as the product of two linear binomials.