Factor Town
One of two or more numbers that are multiplied to get a product.
What is a factor?
All the factors of a number, EXCEPT the number itself.
What is a proper factor?
Two whole number factors of a number whose product is the number.
What is a factor pair?
Numbers that are in order, one after another.
What are consecutive numbers?
a x 1 = a = 1 x a = 1a
What is Identity Property of Multiplication? OR What is Multiplicative Identity Property?
The result (or answer) to a multiplication problem; the result of multiplying two or more factors.
What is a product?
A product of numbers, sometimes with repetitions, resulting in a desired number. A number can have many of these.
What is factorization?
The least multiple that two or more numbers share.
What is least common multiple? (or LCM--must be able to verbalize what LCM stands for)
A whole number with at least 3 factors.
What is a composite number?
(a x b)c = a(b x c) = (a x c)b
What is the Associative Property of Multiplication?
A factor that two or more numbers share.
What is a common factor?
A product of prime numbers, sometimes with repetitions, resulting in a number.
What is prime factorization?
Collections of equal size.
What are "groups of?"
A number with exactly two factors: 1 and the number itself.
What is a prime number?
a x b = b x a = ab = ba
What is Commutative Property of Multiplication?
The factor with the most value that two or more numbers share.
What is greatest common factor? (or GCF--must be able to verbalize what acronym stands for)
A number written as a product of at least two whole number factors.
What is a factor string?
The number that is multiplied by itself to get a square number.
What is a square root?
A number that is the product of a counting number multiplied by itself.
What is a square number?
a(b + c) = ab + ac
What is the Distributive Property of Multiplication?
The product of a given whole number and another whole number. Think "count by."
What is a multiple?
A method to get the prime factorization of a number. The original number is written as a product of two factors, then each of these factors is written as two factors, and so forth, until all of the factors are prime.
What is a factor tree?
The product of a whole number and every whole number between itself and zero.
What is a factorial?
A number whose proper factors add up to more than the number itself.
What is an abundant number?
Every whole number greater than one is either a prime number or can be written as a product of prime numbers in a unique way.
What is Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?