Fractions
The number in the top of a fraction
(above the fraction bar).
What is a numerator?
The two or more numbers that are multiplied together to find a product.
What are factors?
The number that is left over when a division problem does not result in a whole number.
What is a remainder?
This is the acronym used to remember the correct order of operations in math.
What is PEMDAS?
A math statement that uses an equal sign to show that two expressions have the same value.
What is an equation?
The number in the bottom of a fraction
(below the fraction bar)
What is the denominator?
The result of (or answer to) a multiplication problem.
What is a product?
The number being divided.
(i.e. before the division sign)
What is a dividend?
These grouping symbols tell us to perform operations inside before any operations that occur outside of the symbols in an expression.
What are parenthesis?
brackets?
braces?
The value of a variable that makes an equation true.
What is a solution?
Fractions that represent the same value, but with different combinations of numerator and denominator.
What are equivalent fractions?
Multiplication property that says the product of any number and one is that number.
What is the Identity Property of Multiplication?
The number being divided by.
(i.e. the number after the division sign)
What is a divisor?
This operation has the same level of priority as division and must be performed left to right when both appear in an expression.
What is multiplication?
A math statement including one or more terms combined through addition or subtraction.
What is an algebraic expression?
A fraction in which the numerator and denominator have no common factors other than 1.
(i.e. they cannot be divided by the same number)
What is simplest form? or reduced form?
Multiplication property that says the product of any number and zero is zero.
What is the Zero Property of Multiplication?
The result of (or answer to) a division problem.
What is a quotient?
This operation should always be performed before any multiplication/division and after any grouping symbols have been addressed.
What is an exponent?
Two operations that undo each other.
What is an inverse operation?
Multiplication property that says you can change the order of the factors in a multiplication problem without changing the product.
What is the Commutative Property of Multiplication?
To split a number or a whole into equal parts or groups
What is division?
These two operations are the last to be performed and always separate terms in expressions.
What are addition and subtraction?
A symbol or letter that stands for a number which can vary.
What is a variable?