Math Final Vocabulary

a number, a variable, or a product of numbers and variables

a monomial or the sum of monomials

each monomial in a polynomial

a polynomial with exactly two terms

a polynomial wih exactly three terms

the number in front of a variable or the numbered term

the sum of the exponents of the variables

the highest degree of its term

a polynomial written with the least exponent first (variables in alphabetical order), the term with the next largest exponent is second, etc.

a polynomial with the greatest exponents first (variables in alphabetical order), then the next smallest exponent second, etc.