Numbers and Operations Vocabulary

The distance of a number from zero on a number line.

For example:   $\left|7\right|$  

• absolute value

• difference
  

• grouping symbols

• whole number

The result when one number is subtracted from another.

• product

• sum

• difference

• quotient

The set of whole numbers and their opposites.

Examples: -8, 0, 3, 17, -21

• rational

• integer

• whole

• counting

The result when two or more numbers are multiplied.

• sum

• difference

• product

• quotient

The result when one number is divided by another.

• sum

• difference

• product

• quotient

A number that can be written as a fraction, as a terminating decimal or as a repeating decimal.

Ex:  -1/3, 1.75, 4 1/2, 0, -5, 43, -3.3333....

• rational number

• integer

• whole

• counting

The result when two or more numbers are added.

• sum

• difference

• product

• quotient

A positive counting number starting with zero (0).

• rational

• integer

• whole

• counting/natural

The set of positive integers staring at one (1).

• rational

• integer

• whole

• counting/natural

 $A\ number\ in\ the\ form\ \frac{a}{b}.\ \$  

• decimal

• fraction

• percent

• absolute value