“A Mathematician is a blind

man in a dark room looking

for a black cat which isn’t
there”
-Charles Darwin
 a set of
PROBLEM-
SOLVING TOOLS

an ART a LANGUAGE

MATHEMATICS
a PROCESS
a study of
OF
PATTERNS
THINKING
MATHEMATICAL
LANGUAGE
&
SYMBOLS
 more than increase take away decrease
sum
minus difference
plus
add +¿
 
−
  less than

subtract
deduct

OPERATIONS
divide

multiply ×
   
÷ quotient

times
split
product
 The equal sign and its variants

¿
 
‘is equal to’
≤
  ‘is less than or
equal to’
≠
 
‘is not equal to’
¿
 
‘is less than to’

≈
 
‘is approximately equal to’

≥
 
‘is greater than or equal to’

¿
 
‘is greater than to’
 SYMBOLS
°
𝟑𝟓
 
 
‘is a degree’

%
 
‘percentage (“out of 100”)’

√
 
‘square root’

´𝒙
 
‘mean of set numbers’

𝒏
𝒙
 
‘n is an exponent’
 More Symbols

∑❑
 
‘sigma (“sum of several numbers”)’

∞
   
‘infinity’

⋯
 
‘ellipsis or continuous’

∴
 
‘therefore’
 MATHEMATICAL VOCABULARY:
• DEGREE
 Highest exponent in a term.

• LEADING TERM
 term that have a highest degree

• COEFFICIENT
 Numerical value in a term

• VARIABLE
 Letters or alphabets used in each term

• CONSTANT
 Term in which no variable included except 0
• TERM
 Separated by an operators (- and +)

4 types:
1. MONOMIAL – one term
2. BINOMIAL – two terms
3. TRINOMIAL – three terms
4. POLYNOMIAL – many terms

EXPRESSION vs EQUATION
- No equal sign - has equal sign