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My Favorite Math Words

Here are 48 of my favorite math words in 12 groups of 4. Each group has words in it that can be thought of at the same time or are a tool for doing math.
 
between
on
over
in
 
each
multiply
of
many
 
ratio
divisions
distribution
compartments
 
limit
neighborhood
proximity
boundary
 
infinite
infitesmal
mark
differentiation
 
graph
width
height
depth
 
circle
sphere
point
interval
 
hyper
extra
spacetime
dimensional
 
geometry
proportion
sketch
spatial
 
four
table
cross
squared
 
target
rearrange
outcome
result
 
area
volume
space
place
 
What are your favorite math words? If you aren't sure, search for "mathematical words" and pick a few.
2/2/2015 | Elias H. | 1 comment

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I like a few of the metric prefixes, especially fempo, atto, peta, and ones like googol.  A group of four for the largest and smallest prefixes might be nice. 
 
Although it is a science term, mole is really a math number.  
 
Others might include those terms of speech designed to shorten a math explanation, such as therefore, whereas, let's assume, let X be ..., etc.
Sep 6 | Robert S.

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