Topic 3 Vocabulary Review

What is the base in a power?

• An expression that contains only numbers and operators

• The number that is repeatedly multiplied.

• The number of times you multiply a factor by itself.

• Breaking down a composite number into it's factors.

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.1

What is the exponent in a power?

• A number that can be written using exponents.

• A number greater than 1 that has more than two factors.

• The part of the power that tells how many times the base is used as a factor.

• The number in front of the variable in a term.

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.1

What is a power?

• A number that can be written using exponents.

• The number that is repeatedly multiplied.

• A whole number that has exactly two factors.

• The part that tells how many times a base is used as a factor.

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.1

What does "evaluate" mean in math?

• write a number using exponents

• a mathematical phrase involving at least one variable and sometimes numbers and operation symbols

• breaking down a composite number until all of the factors are prime

• substitute any values given for the variable and work through the Order of Operations.

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.2C

What is a composite number?

• A whole number that has exactly two factors, 1 and itself

• A number greater than 1 that has more than two factors

• An expression that contains only numbers and operators

• Terms that contain the same variables raised to the same power.

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.B.4

What is a prime number?

• The number in front of the variable in a term

• A symbol used to represent a quantity that can change

• The smallest whole number greater than 0 that is a common multiple of each of two or more numbers

• A whole number that has exactly two factors, 1 and itself.

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.B.4

What is a factor tree?

• the largest common factor of two or more given numbers

• A diagram showing how a composite number breaks down into its prime factors.

• any symbol that indicates an operation to be performed

• An expression that contains only numbers and operators

What is prime factorization?

• Breaking down a composite number until all of the factors are prime

• what happens when you take a value and put it in place of a variable

• Terms that contain the same variables raised to the same power.

• to write an expression in a simpler form

What is the GCF (Greatest Common Factor)?

• The smallest whole number greater than 0 that is a common multiple of each of two or more numbers

• expressions that have the same value -- expressions that are equal to each other

• the largest common factor of two or more given numbers

• A number that can be written using exponents

What is the LCM (Least Common Multiple)?

• An expression that contains only numbers and operators

• what happens when you take a value and put it in place of a variable

• The smallest whole number greater than 0 that is a common multiple of each of two or more numbers.

• to write an expression in a simpler form