Third Grade Math Academic Vocabulary

Question 1

What is the answer to a division problem called?

Accepted Answer

quotient

Question 2

What do you call the numbers that are multiplied?

Accepted Answer

factors

Question 3

Having the same value, size, or same amount means being what?

Accepted Answer

equal

Question 4

What is the answer to a multiplication problem called?

Accepted Answer

product

Question 5

A whole number that ends in the digit 0,2,4,6, or 8 is called ______.

Accepted Answer

an even number

Question 6

What is the answer to a subtraction problem called?

Accepted Answer

difference

Question 7

What is the answer to an addition problem called?

Accepted Answer

sum

Question 8

What do you do to separate a number into equal groups?

Accepted Answer

divide

Question 9

What is a side-to-side line of objects in an array called?

Accepted Answer

row

Question 10

What is a group of related math facts that use all the same numbers called?

Accepted Answer

fact family

Question 11

What is a mathematical guess called?

Accepted Answer

estimate

Question 12

Pictures, diagrams, tables or equations created by a student to solve a problem are called

Accepted Answer

models

Question 13

What is a series of numbers or shapes that follow a rule to repeat or change called?

Accepted Answer

pattern

Question 14

What is a top-to-bottom line of objects in an array called?

Accepted Answer

column

Question 15

What do you call a number sentence with an equal sign?

Accepted Answer

equation

Question 16

What do you do to find the product of two factors?

Accepted Answer

multiply

Question 17

What is a mathematical action such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication called?

Accepted Answer

operation

Question 18

What is it called when you have to find the nearest ten or hundred of a given number?

Accepted Answer

rounding

Question 19

What is a set of objects arranged in equal rows and equal columns called?

Accepted Answer

array

Question 20

A whole number that ends in the digit 1,3,5,7, or 9 is called ______.

Accepted Answer

an odd number

Questions 20