Math Vocabulary Part I
Math Vocabulary Part II
Math Vocabulary Part III
Math Vocabulary Part IV
Math Vocabulary Part V
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A number that is multiplied by another number to find a product
What is factor? 4 x 7 = 28 The factors are 4 and 7.
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The number that is to be divided in a division problem
What is dividend? Example: 35 ÷ 7 = 5 The dividend is 35.
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The answer to a multiplication problem
What is product? Example: 6 x 2 = 12 The product is 12.
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The answer to an addition problem
What is sum? Example: 12 + 7 = 19 The sum is 19
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The answer in a subtraction problem.
What is difference? 8 – 5 = 3 3 is the difference.
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The greatest factor that two or more numbers have in common
What is Greatest Common Factor? Example: 18: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18 30: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 6 is the GCF of 18 and 30.
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A whole number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and itself
What is prime number? Prime Factors Number 2 1, 2 3 1, 3 5 1, 5
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A number that names a part of a whole or a part of a group
What is a fraction?
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A number with one or more digits to the right of the decimal point
What is a decimal? Example: 3.27
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The product of a given whole number and another whole number
What is multiple? Example: 5: 5, 10 , 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 7: 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56
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A number that is a factor of two or more numbers
What is common factor. Example: factors of 6: 1, 2, 3, 6 factors of 12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 The common factors of 6 and 12 are 1, 2, 3, and 6.
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The smallest number, other than zero, that is a common multiple of two or more numbers
What is least common multiple?
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A number used as a repeated factor
What is a base? 83= 8 x 8 x 8. The base is 8.
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A whole number that has more than two factors
What is a composite number/ Composite Number 4 1, 2, 4 8 1, 2, 4, 8
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Different fractions that name the same amount.
What are equivalent fractions? For example: 4/8 and 1/2 are different fractions that name the same amount.
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A number represented by a whole number and a fraction
What is a mixed number? Example: 2 1/2
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A number written as the product of all its prime factors
What is prime factorization?
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The number, not including the remainder, that results from dividing
What is a quotient?
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One of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . The set of whole numbers goes on without end.
What is a whole number?
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The number that tells how many times a base is to be used as a factor
What is an exponent? 8³ 3 is the exponent.
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The least common multiple of two or more denominators
What is least common denominator?
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A symbol used to compare two numbers, with the lesser number given first
What is less than (<)? Example: 6 8 6 is less than 8.
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A symbol used to compare two numbers, with the greater number given first
What is greater than (>)? Example: 8 > 6 8 is greater than 6.
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The ratio of a number to 100; percent means "per hundred."
What is percent?
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