Thursday, November 10, 2011

Schoolwide Words of the Day Week of Nov. 14

Monday, Nov. 14
Inverse Operation - An action that cancels a given operation. Ex: Subtraction is the inverse operation of addition.

Tuesday, Nov. 15
Isolate - To use inverse operations to get a variable by itself with a coefficient of 1.

Wednesday, Nov. 16
Solution - The number value which makes an equation a true statement when substituted for the variable(s)


Thursday, Nov. 17
Distribute - To multiply a coefficient by every value inside the given parentheses.   Ex:  5(x + y) = 5x + 5y

Friday, Nov. 18
Like Terms - Terms that have the same variable and matching exponents.    Ex: 4x & -6x

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