Multiplication Properties: Lesson 1

Vocabulary flashcards covering the core properties and terms of multiplication from Unit 2, Lesson 1, including the Commutative, Associative, and Distributive properties.

Commutative Property of Multiplication

You can multiply numbers in any order and get the same answer. For example: 9×5=5×9

Associative Property of Multiplication

You can group numbers differently with parentheses and get the same answer.(for example, $(8 \times 2) \times 6 = 8 \times (2 \times 6)$ .

Property (in Mathematics)

A rule or mathematical "law" that governs how operations and numbers behave.

Commutative Property of Addition

You can add numbers in any order and get the same total for example: $8 + 5 = 5 + 8$

Distributive Property

Breaking apart a number into smaller parts, multiplying each part, and adding the answers together

Product

The answer when you multiply numbers together. For example: $90$ in

$15 \times 6 = 90$.

Factor

A number that is multiplied by another number to find a product.

Example: In 3×4=12 , 3 and 4 are factors.

Parentheses (in Multiplication)

Grouping symbols that indicate which two factors in an expression are to be multiplied first. Parentheses ( )

Group

Objects put together

Equal Groups

Groups with the same number of objects.

Row

Objects lined up across, side by side.