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Maths words beginning with C
- Calendar
- A chart that lays out the days of a month in weeks, so that you can find the day of any date.
- Capacity
- How much a container can hold. Capacity is usually measured in millilitres (ml) or litres (L).
- Carry
- In column addition, moving the tens digit of a column total to the next column on the left.
- Category
- A group of things that share a feature, used to sort data. Each item belongs to one category.
- Centimetre
- A unit of length written cm. There are millimetres in a centimetre and centimetres in a metre.
- Chain rule
- The rule for differentiating a composite function: differentiate the outer function, keep the inner one, and multiply by the derivative of the inner function.
- Chance
- How likely something is to happen, described with words from impossible to certain.
- Change
- The money you get back when you pay more than the price.
- Chord
- A straight line joining two points on a circle.
- Circle
- The set of all points in a plane that are the same distance (the radius) from a fixed centre point.
- Circumference
- The distance around the outside of a circle.
- Clockwise
- Turning the same way as the hands of a clock. Turning the other way is called anticlockwise.
- Coefficient
- The number multiplying a variable in an algebraic term.
- Common denominator
- A shared bottom number that lets fractions be added, subtracted or compared. The lowest common multiple of the denominators is the neatest choice.
- Composite function
- A function made by applying one function to the output of another, written or .
- Compound interest
- Interest calculated on the principal plus all interest already added, so the balance grows by the same percentage each period.
- Congruent
- Exactly the same shape and size. One fits onto the other after sliding, flipping or turning.
- Conversion factor
- The number you multiply or divide by to change a measurement from one unit to another.
- Coordinate
- A pair of numbers that gives the position of a point on a grid: across from the origin, then up.
- Correlation
- A relationship between two variables in which they tend to change together. It can be positive, negative or absent, and it does not prove that one causes the other.
- Cube
- A solid with identical square faces, edges and vertices.
- Cubic unit
- A cube with edges of one unit, used to measure volume.
- Cuboid
- A solid with rectangular faces, edges and vertices.
- Currency
- The money used in a country, with its own coins, notes and units.
- Cylinder
- A solid with two flat circular ends and one curved face.