McGraw Hill My Math Grade 5 Chapter 2 Multiply Whole Numbers – Flashcards
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prime number
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a whole number with exactly two (2) factors- 1 and itself example: 3 or 7 or 29
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composite number
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a whole number with more than two factors example: 4- 1,2,4 are its factors; 15- 1,3,3,15 are its factors
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factor
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a number multiplied by another number to get a product
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base
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the number in a power that gets multiplied by itself
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exponent
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raised number that tells you how many times to repeat multply the base to get a product
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prime factorization
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a way of expressing a composite number as a product of its prime factors
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squared
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a base number with an exponent of 2
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cubed
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a base number with an exponent of 3
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powers of 10
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examples: 10, 100, 1000, 10000
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partial product
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in multiplication, breaking down the problem into seperate products; example: 3x64= (3x60) + (3x4) =180+12= 192
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distributive property
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using partial products to solve a multiplication problem
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compatible numbers
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numbers that are easy to compute mentally
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product
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the answer to a multiplication problem
