MATH & GEOMETRY Vocabulary and Terminology in English

Do you need to speak about or understand mathematics or geometry in English? This lesson teaches you all the terminology you need to translate your mathematics knowledge into English. This video will be especially important for students who are studying in an English-speaking country, and for professionals who need to work with English speakers. I'll also explain the correct sentence structures we use to talk about common mathematical operations in English. For example: "One plus one equals two", "one and one is two", "if you add one and one, you get two", and many more. This lesson covers terminology about: operations (+ - * /), fractions, decimals, exponents, roots, shapes, measurements, angles, triangles, and much more. Don't let English stand in the way of your mathematics!
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TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. In today's video I'm going to look at some math. Now, I know this is an English site, don't worry, I'm not actually going to do any math. Philosophy and English major, so math not my favourite, but I will give you some math terminology, words that you need if you're going to do math. Now, a lot of you might be engineers or you might be students who came from another country to an English-speaking country, and you go to math class and you know the math, but you're not sure of the wording. Okay? So this is what we're looking at, terminology, only the words that you need to go into a math class or to do some math on your own. Okay?
We're going to start with the very basics. You know all these functions already. I'm just going to give you some ways to talk about them, and then we'll move on to some other functions and other parts. So, you know the four basic functions: "addition", "subtraction", "multiplication", and "division". What you need to know is ways to say an equation. Right? You know an equation. "1 + 1 = 2", that's an equation. "x2 + y3 = znth", that's also an equation which I'm not even going to get into.
So, let's start with addition. The way to talk about addition. You can say: "1 plus 1", "plus", of course is "+" symbol, that's the plus symbol. "1 plus 1 equals 2." 2 means the total, is also called the "sum". Now, you can also say: "The sum of 1 and 1 is 2." You can also just say, without this part: "1 and 1 is 2." So you don't need the plus, you don't need the equal; you can use "and" and "is", but it means the same thing. Everybody will understand you're making... You're doing addition. Sorry. Doing addition, not making. If you add 1 and 1, you get 2. Okay? So: "add" and "get", other words you can use to express the equation. Now, if you're doing math problems, math problems are word problems. I know a lot of you have a hard time understanding the question because of the words, so different ways to look at these functions using different words, different verbs especially.
If we look at subtraction: "10 minus 5 equals 5". "5", the answer is also called the "difference". For addition it's the "sum", for subtraction it's "difference". "10, subtract 5 gives you 5." Or: "10 deduct"-means take away-"5", we can also say: "Take 5 away"... Oh, I forgot a word here. Sorry. "Take 5 away from 10, you get", okay? "10 subtract 5", you can say: "gives you 5", sorry, I had to think about that. Math, not my specialty. So: "Take 5 away from 5, you get 5", "Take 5 away from 5, you're left with", "left with" means what remains. Okay, so again, different ways to say the exact same thing. So if you see different math problems in different language you can understand what they're saying. Okay?
Multiplication. "5 times 5", that's: "5 times 5 equals 25". "25" is the "product", the answer to the multiplication, the product. "5 multiplied by 5", don't forget the "by". "5 multiplied by 5 is 25", "is", "gives you", "gets", etc.
Then we go to division. "9 divided by 3 equals 3", "3", the answer is called the "quotient". This is a "q". I don't have a very pretty "q", but it's a "q". "Quotient". Okay? "3 goes into... 3 goes into 9 three times", so you can reverse the order of the equation. Here, when... In addition, subtraction, multiplication... Well, actually addition and multiplication you can reverse the order and it says the same thing. Here you have to reverse the order: "goes into" as opposed to "divided by", so pay attention to the prepositions as well. Gives you... Sorry. "3 goes into 9 three times", there's your answer. "10 divided by 4", now, sometimes you get an uneven number. So: "10 divided by 4" gives you 2 with a remainder of 2, so: "2 remainder 2". Sometimes it'll be "2R2", you might see it like that. Okay? So these are the basic functions you have to look at. Now we're going to get into a little bit more complicated math things. We're going to look at fractions, exponents, we're going to look at some geometry issues, things like that.

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I've had 10 years learning English at school and no one teaches Maths in English. Thank you so much for this video. Very useful!

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This is very important part of language, but school program is too concentrated, so many even important topics must be ignored

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I've had 12 years learning English at school and no one teaches Math in English.

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I have plenty of time till my university entrance so I'm learning math and English. This lesson is exactly what I need. Thank you.

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Good luck.

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I'm a international student and thanks a lot for your lesson.

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Adam, that is super lesson! It's information very helpful for me. Can you upload one lesson (a few lessons, maybe) about measuring systems (units of measurement)? I mean about words in metric & imperial systems. For example: - Units of measurement of mass (mass) - Units of temperature (temperature) - Units of distance (distance) - Units of measurement of area (area) - Units of measurement of volume (volume) - Units of information (information) - Time units (time) - Units of measurement of pressure (pressure) - Units of measurement of heat flux (heat flux) - System of relative units в(electric power) It's will be excelent! I think it's will be interesting for other people too. Thank you in advance.

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What a good teacher! Moreover you really taught about non-native speaker! It's so great to have the transcription.

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Hello Adam... Excellent class about Math elements. You made me remember my classes at University with my English teacher when I studied Engineering. Some concepts, I had forgotten them, for example "nth power" or "reflex angle"... A nice memory

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you are the most diligent english teacher I have ever met. what a wonderful lesson.

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Hey Adam. You did such a great job dealing with Math. I got so impressed by the way you put this ideas across.

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I am mechanical engineer from GREECE and It is very useful for me this video.Thank you Adam!

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Exactly what I need now. Thanks

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I have been studying English for three hours. I am studying English right now. God bless you.

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Very nice lesson, the last lesson I had 50 years ago in mathematics. Thank you from Slovakia.

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Thank you so much! I love this lesson. I'm Russian I learn English and I'm so happy because I understand this video

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I wish you were maths teacher as well. You explain so good and I'm struggling with maths!

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what you taught is exactly what I need right now. Thank you!

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I do love math but my English is not so great that I had hard time understanding math class in English but now I know a lot of math vocabulary I guess I can understand more easily thanks for teaching me Adam

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Are you studying math in english school? Don't your teachers dubl their explanations with writing on a board?

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Perfect video! Thank you so much!

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Thanks Adam for helping this electrical engineer to expand his vocabulary at this interesting and important matter. It was so usefull to me and made me remind those days of student. Greetings

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What a wonderful teacher you are! Hope You continue to teach us all.

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The best class I've already seen.

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Thank you so much, Adam.. This was more useful than you think

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Such a cool English teacher! I am not native speaker but thanks to mr. Adam, now I know about it a lot:)

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Very helpful! You are a great teacher! Thank you very much🙏🏻

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Excellent video!!!! Adam you speak so clear.

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Youre a life savior i just moved in to new country, i know math pretty good, but i didnt knew any of the english terms. This video helped a lot thanks man!

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Excellent video! Sir, Your teaching has always been second to none..!

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hi ,adam i work as an english teacher and so proud of you and i got a lot from you.thank you

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You are great teacher. I can speak English a little. But I try every day for learn it. Thank you! More video please, if you want.

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thank you so much for this lesson! it was very interesting and informative, especially for me, because my major is engineering. and i very glad to see you videos, its a good diligently job! Good luck!

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Exactly what I was looking for Thank you so much🙏

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Explained in a simple way, Thank you

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Thanks Adam! very helpful information especially as you said for engineers and math teachers like me 👍

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Math and English! Two favorite lessons of mine together!

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I've been waiting for the new video of yours. Happy that it is finally out.

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This is so useful. Thanks a lot for sharing! Greetings from Chile, love your channel!!

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The zero-point-base-whatever thing is typically referred to as *origin* :) An outstanding lesson!

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Thank you soooo much, Adam!!

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What a wonderful lesson, never seen before. I learned a lot. Thanks, you're a great teacher. Regards.

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Thanks so much, Adam!!! Good class.

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Thank you Adam. It's really useful video, even for improving common vocabulary.

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Thanks so much, Adam!!

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I’m sharing this with my Brasilian friend who is now wanting to teach mathematics in the U.S. He taught mathematics in Brasil.

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Thank you very much for this lesson!

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I'm from Kazakhstan. I'm learning English for your videos. good teacher

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This is exactly what I've wanted to know! Thanks a lot!!

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Just what I needed. Thank you.

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Thank you very much Adam for your job.

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I'm a Mexican English teacher (not the best one). A few months ago, a math teacher had an accident and I took her place for one week. When I got into the classroom, my students asked me to teach them math in Spanish and I felt so relieved because I didn't know how to say square root even though it's almost an exact translation from Spanish. Next time, I will make them suffer even more and it will be just because of you. Thank you so much!

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You are sensational. It was informative and explained in a simple way. Way to go!

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I like his way when he details all subject he teaching us

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That's enough stuff to start with, you're right. Many thanks.

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Hi Adam, I learnt all these terminology in Portuguese, but i did not know how to say them in English, therefore your explanation helped me so much. I am really glad. Thanks

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Great video! I had been trying to find math vocabulary for while, and now, I found it!

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I’m giving math tutorings in México and someone asked for an English class, thanks for the video!

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Thank you for explaining this teacher i didn't really know it.

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Thank you so much, Adam!

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Great video! Thank you very much. It was just what I needed to begin teaching in my bilingual Math class. Very clear explanation, very concise. Thanks again from Spain!

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Thank you so much for this video. Very useful!

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Very good classes. Amazing. Im from Brazil and I´m learning a lot from it.

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That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! Could you make a video about some basic physics terminology?

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Excellent video Adam. It helps a lot to improve my English skills! Thanks a lot.

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I really love your lessons thank you

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Hello, Adam! I just watched this video and loved it. I really appreciate all of the information you explained. I’m a math teacher and I’m learning english also so you can imagine your video was to me. You really did a great job. Just can sayTHANK YOU, Adam! By the way, I’m from 🇳🇮

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The best video about math. Thank you very much.

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Since I teach English, your video helps a lot. Thanks.

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Thanks a lot Adam, I really need to learn the vocabulary about this topic in English

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