Maths Vocabulary

[Bird in a Forest]

Hello all,

You'd be surprised at how difficult it is to find information on this on the web. I did a fair search and couldn't find anything useful. (It always comes up with articles about Chinese students being better at Maths rather than articles on math vocabulary for Chinese O.o).

Anyway, if we could gather a list of useful Mathematical terms in this thread I think that would be a great resource for everyone.

For starters:
 

• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division (How to say 1 + 1, 2 X 3, 4 / 5, etc.).
• Is equal to, is more than, less than, more than and equal to, less than and equal to etc.
• Fractions
• Units (Including m/s^2 etc.)
• Exponents (to the power of)
• Routing (Square route, cube route)
• Algebraic Terms (How to say Algebra would be a good start XD, factorise, expand, d.o.t, etc.)
• Trigonometric Terms (Trigonometry, sin(), cos(), tan(), etc.)
• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
• Probability
• Calculus Terms
• Other possibly useful terms that we could use in real life
   

Thank you everyone

[Michaelyus]

From the NY State Education Department:

http://www.p12.nysed.gov/biling/bilinged/bilingual_glossaries.htm

[Kanjiology]

I have in my possession a booklet called 数理化常用词汇 - 汉英对照手册 issued by the university where I study at which is given to science and math students. It has a lot of math, physics, and chemistry terms. I took a few hastily pictures of it since its late, but hope I could lead you in the right direction, I could take more pictures if there is enough interest. 

 

Edit: Michaelyus's link has a lot of good information, I might take advantage of that. Thanks for the link. 

[Bird in a Forest]

The link Michaelyus posted seems to be offline. I cannot connect to the website.

[Bird in a Forest]

Thanks Kanjiology, the pictures you posted are very useful. If you have more of them, it would be great if you could share them with us when you have the time

[Michaelyus]

Hmmm... methinks it's related to your location. Just checked it, came back positive for poisoning. Whoops.

[ZhangJiang]

With some guessing:

Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division (How to say 1 + 1, 2 X 3, 4 / 5, etc.).

加 减 乘 除

一加一，2乘3 or 2乘以3，4除以5 or 5除4

Fractions

分数

Units (Including m/s^2 etc.)

单位（米 平方秒？ s refers to a second?）

Exponents (to the power of)

幂（的n次方，的n次幂）

Routing (Square route, cube route)

开方（平方根，立方根）

Algebraic Terms (How to say Algebra would be a good start XD, factorise, expand, d.o.t, etc.)

代数 （factorise因式分解，展开，I don't know what d.o.t is）

Trigonometric Terms (Trigonometry, sin(), cos(), tan(), etc.)

三角函数（正弦，余弦，正切）

Degrees, Minutes, Seconds

度，分，秒

Probability

概率

Calculus Terms

微积分，dy/dx is微分，big s 积分

Other possibly useful terms that we could use in real life

几何，失量，统计学，数列，排列组合，函数，方程，线性，非线性，离散，置信区间，集合，解析几何，勾股定理，方程组，行列式，方阵，秩，基，元，象限……

[MPhillips]

The word "root" as in "square root" is spelled "root" not "route".

[eshton]

 

Units (Including m/s^2 etc.)

单位（米 平方秒？ s refers to a second?）

 Would be 米每平方秒, the slash is read as 每

[ZhangJiang]

Would be 米每平方秒, the slash is read as 每

yes, I left out the 每, but what is a 平方秒?

[MPhillips]

@Zhangjiang--It's no wonder you haven't heard of "d.o.t.", I don't think such an acronym exists in mathematics, my husband teaches math & has never heard of it. I think the original poster might have meant "dot product".

[ZhangJiang]

@Zhangjiang--It's no wonder you haven't heard of "d.o.t.", I don't think such an acronym exists in mathematics, my husband teaches math & has never heard of it. I think the original poster might have meant "dot product".

Thx for the explanation. I've totally forgotten the dot product(数量积) and the cross product(叉乘) and had to look them up.

[eshton]

 

eshton, on 20 Aug 2014 - 12:27 PM, said:

Would be 米每平方秒, the slash is read as 每

yes, I left out the 每, but what is a 平方秒?

On its own it's meaningless but m/s^2 is actually the SI unit for acceleration

[anonymoose]

平方X is X² so 平方秒 is 秒², in other words s².

[Bird in a Forest]

This is great guys

D.O.T. is difference of two squares. I was taught it in school, I thought it was standard XD

[Bird in a Forest]

So: (x + 4)(x-4) = x^2 - 16