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!