Unit 2 Vocabulary 6th Grade Flashcards
Composite number
A whole number greater than 1 that has factors other than itself and 1
Prime numbers
A whole number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and itself
Factor trees
A diagram that can be used to write the prime factorization of a number
Exponent
The number of times a factors is repeated; also called a power
Base number
The repeated factors
Greatest common factor
The largest common factor of a set of of positive intergers
Factor
A number multiplied by another number to find a product
Intergers
The numbers …, -5, -4, -3 -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Least common multiple
The smallest common multiple of a set of postive intergers
Multiple
A group of things or objects. They are repeated addition or multiplication
Prime factorization
A whole number written as the product of prime factors
Addition
The process of uniting two or more numbers into one sum, represented by the symbol of +
Division
The operation inverse to multiplication; the finding of a quantity, the quotient, that when multiplied by a given quantity, the divisor, gives another given quantity, the dividend; the process of acertaining how many times one number or quantity is contained in another
Evaluate
To find the valuate of an expression
Expression
Expression consists of numbers and operations to be preformed
