Topic 3 Math Vocabulary

Contains numbers and at least one operation

• Addition

• Numerical expression

• Distributive Property

• Partial Product

States that you can change the grouping of the factors and the product stays the same

• Associative Property of Multiplication

• Compensation

• Subtraction

• Inverse operations

Choosing numbers close to the numbers in a problem to make the computation easier, and then adjusting the answer for the numbers chosen

• Multiplication

• Array

• Commutative Property of Multiplication

• Compensation

States that multiplying the sum (or difference) by a number is the same as multiplying each number in the sum (or difference) by that number and adding (or subtracting) the products

• Partial products

• Addition

• Distributive Property

• Rounding

Products found by breaking one factor in a multiplication problem into ones, tens, hundreds, and so on and then multiplying each of these by the other factor

• Partial products

• Associative Property of Multiplication

• Numerical expression

• Factor

States that the order of the factors can be changed, but the product stays the same

• Comepensation

• Divisor

• Quotient

• Commutative Property of Multiplication