Elementary Numbers
The value that a digit has due to its position in a number
What is place value?
The process of repeated addition
What is multiplication?
The answer in a multiplication problem
What is the product?
A part of a whole; it is made up of a numerator (top number) and a denominator (bottom number)
What is a fraction?
The numbers in dark black print are examples of
21 ÷ 7 = 3
40 ÷ 8 = 5
60 ÷ 10 = 6
What are quotients!
A number that is multiplied by another number
What is factor?
The act of separating a number into equal parts
What is division?
The answer in a division problem
What is quotient?
The top number of a fraction
What is a numerator?
12 ÷ 4 = 3
4 is divided into 12, so it is the ______
What is the divisor?
A number than can be divided into evenly (without a remainder)
What is a multiple?
A number that is used to show how many times another number is repeatedly multiplied
What is an exponent?
A smaller number that is divided into another larger number
What is a divisor?
The number below the fraction bar
What is a denominator?
15 ÷ 3 = 5
15 is ______by 3, so it is the ________
What is a dividend?
ex: In the number 1,259 the ______ of the 5 is tens, and the _______ of the 2 is hundreds.
What is a place value?
3 and 5 are factors in this problem: 3 x 5 = 15
What is an example of factors?
The larger number that is divided by a smaller number in a division problem
What is the dividend?
A point that is used to separate whole numbers from fractional numbers; it is read aloud as “and”
What is a decimal?
It looks like this: 2/3
ex: Two out of three pizzas had pepperoni.
What is a numerator?
ex: 5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
What is multiplication equation?
8, 12, and 20 are ______ of 4 24 is a ______of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12.
What is a multiple?
The “leftovers” in a division problem
What is a remainder?
12 can be divided by 5 with 2 _______: The 12 candies were divided by 5… …after dividing into 2 even groups 2 were ________.
What is a remainder?
It looks like this: 5/7
ex: There are seven days in a week. I went to school on five of them.
What is a denominator?
3 x 5 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15
What is a multiplication equation?
The product of 4 and 6 is 24. 4 x 6 = 24
What is a product?
John used division to find out how many friends could fairly share 8 pieces of candy: 8÷2=4 and 8÷4=2
What is a division equation?
Liz wanted to share her chocolate chip cookie. She cut it into 2 equal parts and ate 1 part. She ate 1/2 of the cookie.
What is a fraction?
ex: 2 . 25
(Read: Two and twenty-five hundredths)
What is a decimal?