General Knowledge Math Competency 5 & 6 (Vocab Words)

Polygon

A closed plane figure made up of line segments

Quadrilateral

A polygon with four sides

Trapezoid

A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides

Parallelogram

A quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel.

Square

A parallelogram with four congruent sides and four right angles.

Rectangle

a parallelogram with 4 right anglesA quadrilateral with four right angles

Rhombus

A parallelogram with four congruent sidesa parallelogram with 4 congruent sides

Acute Triangle

A triangle with 3 acute angles

Obtuse Triangle

a triangle with one obtuse angle, or greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.

Right Triangle

a triangle with one right angleA triangle whose largest angle measures 90°.

Isosceles triangle

a triangle with at least two congruent sides

Equilateral Triangle

A triangle with three congruent sides

Scalene Triangle

a triangle with no congruent sides

Cylinder

A solid shape with one curved surface and two congruent circular bases.

Cone

A three dimensional figure with one vertex and one circular base

Pyramid

A polyhedron with a polygon base and triangular sides that all meet at a common vertex

Sphere

ball, sphere, or round

Prism

A polyhedron with two parallel congruent faces called bases

Tetrahedron

A polyhedron with four faces,a geometric solid having four sides that are equilateral triangles

Ratio

A comparison of two quantities by division

Proportion

An equation stating that two ratios are equalAn equation that states that two ratios are equivalent

Congruent

Having the same size and shape

Similar

Comparable,almost the same

Area

The number of square units required to cover a surface.

Perimeter

The distance around a polygon.the distance around a shape

Circumference

The distance around a circle

Radius

The distance from the center of a circle to any point on the circle

Diameter

A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a circle or sphere.

Area of a Circle

A=πr²

Circumference of Circle

C=2πr or C= pi x d