PEI EMA Grade 6 flashcards
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- Theme
- The underlying message about life or human nature that a text communicates. It is stated as a full sentence, not a single word like 'friendship'.
- Inference
- A conclusion a reader draws by combining explicit details from the text with background knowledge. It must be supported by evidence actually written in the text.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as', for example 'her voice was as quiet as falling snow'.
- Third-person omniscient narrator
- A narrator outside the story who knows the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of several characters, not just one.
- Context clue
- Information found in nearby words, sentences, or illustrations that helps a reader work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word without using a dictionary.
- Topic sentence
- The sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph. It usually comes first and is supported by the detail sentences that follow it.
- Compound sentence
- A sentence made of two independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction such as and, but, or so.
- Revising
- The writing stage that improves ideas, organization, word choice, and sentence variety, and that happens before editing for spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- Transition word
- A word or phrase such as 'however', 'therefore', or 'first' that shows the relationship between ideas and links sentences or paragraphs together.
- Claim
- A clear statement of the writer's position on an issue, which the rest of the piece supports with reasons, evidence, and a response to counterarguments.
- Active listening
- Fully focusing on a speaker by facing them, making eye contact, taking notes, and then asking questions or summarizing to confirm understanding.
- Paraphrasing
- Restating a speaker's or author's ideas in your own words to show understanding and check accuracy. It does not mean you agree with those ideas.
- Accountable talk
- Discussion in which students respond to one another's ideas with reasons and evidence, using prompts such as 'I agree because…' or 'Can you explain…?'.
- Nonverbal communication
- Messages sent through body language such as posture, gestures, facial expression, and eye contact rather than through the words a person says.
- Order of operations
- The agreed sequence for calculating an expression: brackets first, then exponents, then multiplication and division left to right, then addition and subtraction left to right.
- Lowest common multiple
- The smallest number that is a multiple of two or more given numbers. It is used to find a common denominator, for example LCM(4, 6) = 12.
- Reciprocal
- One of two numbers whose product is 1. The reciprocal of 3/4 is 4/3, and dividing by a fraction means multiplying by its reciprocal.
- Unit rate
- A rate expressed per one unit of the second quantity, found by dividing the first quantity by the second, such as $3.20 per kilogram.
- Greatest common factor
- The largest number that divides evenly into two or more numbers, found by multiplying the prime factors they share, for example GCF(12, 18) = 6.
- Variable
- A letter or symbol that stands for an unknown or changing number in an expression, an equation, or a pattern rule.
- Expression
- A mathematical phrase containing numbers, variables, and operations but no equals sign, such as 3n + 5 or 2(a − 4).
- Equation
- A mathematical statement showing that two expressions are equal, written with an equals sign, which can be solved to find an unknown value.
- Linear pattern rule
- A pattern in which the same amount is added each step, producing a straight-line graph and a rule such as 4n + 1 for the nth term.
- Substitution
- Replacing a variable in an expression with a given number and then evaluating using order of operations, so 2n + 7 becomes 17 when n = 5.
- Area of a triangle
- Half of the base multiplied by the perpendicular height, written A = ½ × b × h, where the height meets the base at a right angle.
- Volume of a prism
- The amount of space inside a three-dimensional solid, found by multiplying the area of its base by its height.
- Supplementary angles
- Two angles whose measures add to 180 degrees. The three interior angles of any triangle are also supplementary.
- Translation
- A transformation that slides a figure a fixed distance in a given direction without turning or flipping it, producing a congruent image.
- Mean
- The average of a data set, found by adding all the values and dividing by the number of values. Outliers pull the mean up or down.
- Median
- The middle value when a data set is arranged in order. With an even number of values, it is the mean of the two middle values.
- Probability of an event
- The number of favourable outcomes divided by the total number of equally likely outcomes, written as a value from 0 to 1.
- Sample space
- The complete set of all possible outcomes of a probability experiment, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 for rolling one number cube.