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General Educational Development (GED): Common Math Terms

Guide will help adult education students with math, science, social studies, language arts and reading comprehension in order to prepare for their GED Exams.

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Common Math Terms

Associate property: when adding or multiplying a series of numbers is does not matter which way they are ordered

Factors: are numbers that are multiplied together to obtain a product

Common factors: a number that divides exactly into to or more other numbers

Prime Numbers: have two distinct/different factors: one and itself

Prime factors: any of the prime numbers that can be multiplied to give the original number.

Prime Factorization is finding which prime numbers multiply together to make the original number. 

Like terms: numbers whose variables and their exponents are the same.

Equation: A mathematical statement that two quantities are equal.

Degree: The unit used to measure the size of an angle.

Volume: The measure of the number of cubic units needed to fill a space.

Mean: The average

Median: The middle number in a set of data.

Mode: The number which appears most often in a set of numbers.

Range: The difference between the lowest and highest values.

Equation: A statement that the values of two mathematical expressions are equal (indicated by the sign =).

Expression: A sentence with a minimum of two numbers and at least one math operation. This math operation can be addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. 

Coefficient: a numerical or constant quantity placed before and multiplying the variable in an algebraic expression 

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