A
To square a number: just multiply it by itself.
square
The exponent of a number says how many times to use that number in a multiplication.
exponent
In Algebra a term is either a single number or variable, or numbers and variables multiplied together.
term
How much there is of something.
quantity
An "input" value of a function.
independent variable
A number used to multiply a variable.
Example: 6z means 6 times z, and "z" is a variable, so 6 is a coefficient.
coefficient
An "input" value of a function.
dependent variable
Numbers we can multiply together to get another number.
factoring
The "Multiplicative Identity" is 1, because multiplying a number by 1 leaves it unchanged:
multiplicative identity
A value, or values, we can put in place of a variable (such as x) that makes the equation true.
solution
A number is a count or measurement.
number
The result of multiplying a whole number by itself twice.
cube number
The power (or exponent) of a number says how many times to use the number in a multiplication.
power
A symbol for a value we don't know yet. It is usually a letter like x or y.
variable
The "Additive Identity" is 0, because adding 0 to a number does not change it:
additive identity
The Distributive Law says that multiplying a number by a group of numbers added together is the same as doing each multiplication separately.
distributive law