David E. McAdams - All Math Words Dictionary

All Math Words Dictionary is designed for students of pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra in middle school and high school. It is designed using the four 'C's of math writing:

• Concise: Definitions are compact, yet understandable.
• Complete: All words and phrases of interest to targeted students are included, plus a few just beyond the scope of the target classes. Tables of symbols and notation, formulas, and units of measurement, plus lists of properties of objects give the student all the information needed to weld their understanding of the concepts and decipher many problems.
• Correct: The definitions have been thoroughly reviewed for mathematical and literary correctness.
• Comprehensible: The definitions are written to be understood by targeted students. Abundant illustrations aid in understanding.

One of the difficulties many students experience in learning math skills has to do with the fact that an entire language, both spoken and written, has grown up around math. Students that acquire that language are successful in math studies. Students that do not acquire that language have serious problems with mathematics. This dictionary is designed to aid in the acquisition of the language of math.

This dictionary has:

• over 3000 entries
• more than 140 notations defined
• in excess of 790 illustrations
• IPA pronunciation guide
• greater than 1400 formulas, equations, definitions, examples, identities and expressions.
• conversion of measures

This dictionary has alphabetized entries plus a subject index containing formulas and identities. Most entries are laid out like this:

At the end of the entry, there may be additional notes such as synonyms and references to related words or to the subject index.

The pronunciation in this dictionary is given in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) style. A brief guide to the portion of IPA used in the section .

Some words and phrases have more than one distinct meaning. In this case, there will be several enumerated definitions:

logic noun /ld.k/

1. the science that investigates the principles governing correct and reliable inference.
2. a series of statements that make use of the science of logic.

There are several things which influence the alphabetization scheme of this dictionary:

• This dictionary defines many phrases in addition to single words.
• Numeric digits are part of some entry headings.
• Hyphens and commas appear in some entry headings.
• Mathematical symbols are used in some entry headings.

Because of these issues, a special alphabetization scheme is used.

1. Capital letters are alphabetized the same as lower case letters. The following words are in the special alphabetical order:
   • abacus
   • Abelian group
   • abscissa
2. Spaces are ignored. The following words are in the special alphabetical order:
   • amplitude
   • analytical proof
   • analytic geometry
3. Numeric digits come before alphabetic letters and are in numeric order. The following entries are in the special alphabetical order:
   • 1, property of multiplication by
   • 2-space
   • 3-space
4. All punctuation marks such as commas and hyphens are ignored. The following entries are in the special alphabetical order:
   • half
   • half-angle
   • half life
   • half-line

   Exception: In the case of a prefix, the entry with the dash comes after anyentries with the same letters but no dash, but before any words using that prefix.The following entries are in the special alphabetical order:

   • a
   • A
   • a-
   • AAA

The plurals (more than one) of nouns are shown at the end of an entry only if the spelling or pronunciation of the plural is unusual. The usual spelling of plurals are:

Stress marks: // primary; // secondary