Learn the Top 10 Must Know Math Words in English
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Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words.
My name is Alisha and today we’re going
to be talking about 10 must know math
word. So let’s go!
Plus. The first word is plus, you might
have this + sign on your keyboard, you
probably do, it means to add something. So
like, one plus one equals two.
It’s an addition related phrase, plus.
Minus, the next one, the opposite of plus
is the - sign. So in this case,
two minus one equals one. So it’s a
subtraction. That’s related to subtraction,
taking away something, minus.
Times. Ok, the next one is times, we use for
multiplication, so it’s represented by an
x symbol. So 2 times 2 equals 4. We use x.
2 x 2 equals 4, it’s a multiplication
related word. I wonder why we use x. 2 x 2.
Divided. divided as the verb, so
2/2 equals 1, for example. Divided by is that
dot line dot symbol. 2/2 equals 1. You
can use “divided by”, is the expression,
two divided by…
Equal. Equal or equals, we use this before
we present the solution to a math
problem, so 2 times 2 equals, with an s,
equals, it equals four,
for example. You can also use equal to
show that two things have the same value,
two is equal to two. This value is equal to
that value, that’s another way that you
can use the word equal. Equation, the next
math word is equation. Equation, so up
until now we’ve been talking about a
part of an equation but the whole math
problem everything there is called the
equation, so the process that you need to
do in order to solve an equation. An
equation is something that you do to
solve a problem. This this part of the
equation, this part is the solution.
The ending the result is the solution.
The problem is called the equation, the
process, the math process to find a solution.
Percent. Percent, this is a very useful word you
can use, of course, when doing math or
maths problems, but you can also use this
when shopping, for example. So a sale is
five percent off, ten percent off, it
represents a discount.
You can also use percent to describe
effort levels, for example, a sports team
coach might tell his team,
I need you to work at a hundred percent
today. So it’s used to express the
level of something, but it can also be
used in sales and in math related terms.
Remainder. The next word is remainder.
Remainder is used when doing a division,
it means, remainder means
something that is left over. So when
doing division, when doing division
problems, sometimes there’s a
problem or an equation that results in
a number that is not round, or a
number that is not whole. So for example,
1.2 might be a solution to a math
problem, the 0.2, that is the
remainder there, that’s what’s left over.
So it’s not a whole number but there’s
something, a little bit, that’s left,
that’s remaining, that’s called the
remainder, something that’s left over.
Even. The word even represents numbers
like two four six eight ten twelve, we
consider those numbers even, they end in a
2, 4, 6, 8, or 0, those are the even numbers.
Odd. So the next word is odd, which
represents the numbers that are not even.
1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, any number that ends in
one, three, five, seven, or nine is called
an odd number. Anything that ends in two,
four, six, eight, or zero is an even number.
Alright, so those are 10 math related
words that are actually quite useful, you
can use them to talk about, of course,
math equations, but they’re also useful in,
perhaps, in some business situations and
when shopping. So give them a try. Thanks
very much for watching this episode of
Top Words, and we will see you again soon. Bye!