Math Vocabulary
The answer in an addition problem
What is the sum?
Have a total, not equal groups
What is subtraction?
What is 12?
What is the minute hand?
The numbers you add together
What are the addends?
The answer in a subtraction problem.
What is the difference?
Do not have a total, have equal groups
What is multiplication?
How many pounds in a ton
What is 2,000?
The short hand on the clock
What is the hour hand?
Broken equally into 4 parts
What are fourths?
The answer in a division problem
What is the quotient?
Have a total, have equal groups
What is division?
How many pints in a gallon
What is 8?
How many minutes are in 1 hour
What is 60 minutes?
The numbers you multiply together
What are the factors?
The answer in a multiplication problem.
What is the product?
Do not have a total, do not have equal groups
What is addition?
How many cups in a half gallon
What is 8?
What we call time that passes
What is elapsed time?
Always ends with a 5 or 0
What are multiples of 5?
In math, it means the opposite.
What is the inverse?
These help tell us what operation to use in a word problem
What is a tape diagram?
About how much water it would take to fill up a regular bath tub
What is 80 gallons?
The amount of days in one year.
What is 365?
Equal groups, repeated addition, arrays
What is multiplication?