Topic 3 Vocabulary (Envisions)

Factors can be regrouped and the product stays the same.

• associative property of multiplication

• numerical expression

• distributive property

• partial products

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.

• associative property of multiplication

• partial products

• numerical expression

• distributive property

An expression that contains numbers and at least one operation.

Example: 35 + 12

• associative property of multiplication

• partial products

• numerical expression

• distributive property

Multiplying a 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.

Example: (3 x 21) = (3 x 20 ) + (3 x 1)

• associative property of multiplication

• partial products

• numerical expression

• distributive property

Factors can be multiplied in any order and the product stays the same.

• commutative property of multiplication

• distributive property

• associative property of multiplication

• partial products