Whole Numbers

Question 1

What are natural numbers?

Answer 1

Natural numbers are also called the counting numbers. They are 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10…

Question 2

What are whole numbers?

Answer 2

Whole numbers are natural numbers, but with the value zero added on. They are 0;1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9…

Question 3

What are integers?

Answer 3

Integers are whole numbers including negatives.

Question 4

What are rational numbers?

Answer 4

Rational numbers are integers plus fractions and decimals.

Question 5

What is the order of operations in mathematics?

Answer 5

Brackets
Exponents
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction

Question 6

What is the commutative property of addition and multiplication?

Answer 6

This property means that the order in which you add or multiply numbers does not matter.

Question 7

What is the associative property of addition and multiplication?

Answer 7

This property means that the order in which you group numbers does not matter.

Question 8

What is the distributive property of multiplication over addition and subtraction?

Answer 8

This means that if addition and subtraction take place inside a bracket where the result of said subtraction and addition is being multiplied, then each value inside the bracket can be multiplied by the number outside of the bracket.

Question 9

What are the special properties of one?

Answer 9

Any number multiplied by one is the number. The value does not change when multiplied by one.

Question 10

What are the special properties of zero?

Answer 10

Any number added to zero does not change.
Any number multiplied by zero is zero.
Zero divided by any number is zero
N.B. You cannot divide by zero