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Division Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Division | Splitting into equal parts or groups. It is the result of "fair sharing". Mathematical notation for division is รท or / or the division house symbol. |
Dividend | The number being fair shared and the number being divided up into parts. Example: 42 divided by 3 means 42 is the dividend. Example 2: 3 goes into 42 means 42 is the dividend. |
Factor | Numbers we can multiply together to get another number. The divisor and the quotient are factors of the dividend. |
Quotient (kwo-shent) | The answer after you divide one number by another. |
Divisor | The number you are dividing BY. Example: Five is the divisor for the problems 25 divided by 5 and Five goes into 25. |
Remainder | The amount left when you cannot make all groups equally sized in a division problem. Example: 10 divided by 3 equals 3 groups of 3 with 1 left over. |
Fact Family | A fact family is a group of numbers that are related to each other in that those numbers can be combined to create a number of equations. |