Mathematical Terms
The answer to an addition problem.
What is the SUM?
The three parts of a multiplication problem are the multiplicands and the product. The multiplicands represent these two kinds of information.
What are NUMBER PER GROUP and NUMBER OF GROUPS?
The place of the 3 in the number 135.
What is the TENS place?
This property only works for addition and multiplication, and allows the addends/multiplicands to trade places. For example, 2+3 = 3+2, or 5x4 = 4x5.
What is the COMMUTATIVE property?
What are ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, and DIVISION?
The answer to a subtraction problem.
What is the DIFFERENCE?
The product in a multiplication problem represents this information.
What is the TOTAL NUMBER of things being counted?
The place of the 7 in the number 762.
What is the HUNDREDS place?
This property works only in addition or multiplication, and allows a mathematician to group addends/multiplicands in any order to solve. For example, 2+3+4 = 3+2+4 = 4+3+2, and 3x5x2 = 2x5x3 = 5x2x3
What is the ASSOCIATIVE property?
What are:
0+10, 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5, 6+4, 7+3, 8+2, 9+1, 10+0?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
What is the PRODUCT?
Also called the product, this is the piece of information that you are trying to figure out in a multiplication problem.
What is the TOTAL NUMBER?
The place of the 4 in the number 24.
What is the ONES place?
Using for multiplying multi-digit numbers, this property allows a mathematician to decompose a large multiplicand and multiply by the other multiplicand one part at a time. For example, in 25x3, you can multiply 20x3=60, then 5x3=15, then combine 60+15 to find the product of 75.
What is the DISTRIBUTIVE property?
Any number times this number will have a product that ends in 0 or 5.
What is 5?
The answer to a division problem.
What is the QUOTIENT?
In a division problem, one of these pieces of information will be known, and the other will be the question you are trying to answer.
What are the NUMBER OF GROUPS and NUMBER PER GROUP?
The place of the 8 in the number 8,205.
What is the THOUSANDS place.
This operation uses the additive identity property, where the sum of any number and zero is the original number.
What is ADDITION?
Any number times this number will end in 0.
What is 10?
The total number of things is called the PRODUCT when it's the answer to a multiplication problem, but is called by this other term when it's in a division problem.
What is the DIVIDEND?
Either of these two operations can be used to solve this problem: Evy has 3 cookies, Anders has cookies, and Ms. Ashleigh has 3 cookies. How many cookies do they have in all?
What are ADDITION and MULTIPLICATION?
Its job is to be a placeholder when a place value position has no value in it.
What is ZERO?
This operation uses the identity property in a different way, where the product of any number x 1 is the original number.
What is MULTIPLICATION?
Any number times this number will have an answer that is always even.
What is 2?