Vocabulary
What does the word sum mean?
The answer to an addition problem.
If a recipe uses 8 cups of water for every 4 cups of rice. What is the simplified ratio of water to rice.
8:4 = 2:1
A class has 24 students. If they form groups of 4, how many groups can they make?
They can make 6 groups.
81 ÷ 9 = ?
9
When I say find the product of a problem. What does the word product mean?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
In a mixture with 24 red beads and 36 blue beads. What is the simplified ratio of red to blue.
24:36 = 2:3
A farmer picks 126 apples and packs them into bags of 6. How many number of bags does he fills?
He fills 21 bags.
1,004 – 678 = ?
326
What is the word for the answer to a subtraction problem?
The word is difference.
In a class, 15 students prefer pizza and 20 prefer tacos. What is the ratio of students who prefer pizza to the total number of students?
15:35 or 3:7
A store had 600 pencils. After selling 275 on Monday and 198 on Tuesday. How many pencils are left.
There are 127 pencils left.
2.5 × 3 = ?
7.5
What word means answer to a division problem?
The word is quotient.
A fruit bowl has apples and oranges in a ratio of 5:7. If there are 42 oranges, what is the number of apples?
5:7 = 30:42
A library had 450 books. After donating 128 of them, how many books remain?
322 books remain.
36 × 27 = ?
972
What does operation mean? Show me an example or write the definition.
The different forms of math. Which are addition, subraction, multiplication, and division.
The ratio of cats to dogs at a shelter is 7:4. If there are 60 dogs in the shelter. How many cats and dogs are there in total?
There is a total of 165 cats and dogs in the shelter.
A student read 45 pages on Wednesday, then on Thursday they read 72 more pages, and finally on Friday they read 53 pages. How many pages did the student read in total?
The student read 170 pages in total.
735 ÷ 21 = ?
35