Math Vocabulary

     Prime Number

• a natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number

• a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.

• a number that can be divided by another number without a remainder

• a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression

Composite Number

•   the greatest whole number that is a factor of each number.

• the smallest whole number greater than zero that is a multiple of each number.

• a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

• a natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number

Factor

•     a division problem in which the number of groups is unknown.

• a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

•    a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.

•    the reciprocal of a number is one divided by that number.

Multiple

• a number that can be divided by another number without a remainder.

•    a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.

•     is a number such that the product of both numbers is 1.

•      a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

Partitive Division

•     a natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number.

•   a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.

•    a number to be divided by another number.

• a division problem in which the group size is unknown.

Measurement Division

•    a division problem in which the number of groups is unknown.

•   a division problem in which the group size is unknown.

•      a number to be divided by another number.

• a number by which another number is to be divided.

Dividend

• a number by which another number is to be divided.

• a number to be divided by another number.

•   a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

• a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.

Divisor

• a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

• a number by which another number is to be divided.

•    is a number such that the product of both numbers is 1.

•     the reciprocal of a number is one divided by that number.

Quotient

•    a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

•   a number by which another number is to be divided.

•    a number to be divided by another number.

•   a division problem in which the number of groups is unknown.

Reciprocal

• a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

•     is a number such that the product of both numbers is 1.

• a result obtained by dividing one quantity by another.

•   the reciprocal of a number is one divided by that number.