4th Grade Math Vocabulary

What does "sum" mean?

• something

• the answer to an addition problem

• the answer to a division problem

• the same thing as "some"

What does "difference" mean?

• a disagreement or fight

• the distance between two numbers

• add

• the result of subtracting one number from another

What does "quotient" mean?

• the answer to a subtraction problem

• to be quiet

• the answer to a division problem

• a type of fruit

What does "divisor" mean?

• the number being divided

• the number that you are dividing BY

  for example, in 72/4, the divisor would be 4

• the answer to a subtraction problem

• the things we put in our binders

What does "dividend" mean?

• the number you divide BY

• a highlighter

• the number BEING divided

• it just means to divide

What does "product" mean?

• the answer to a division problem

• something you buy at the store

• the answer to a multiplication problem

• a math tool

What does "multiple" mean?

• the numbers you multiply together to get another number

• more than one

• the answer to a division problem

• the result of multiplying a certain number by another number

  for example, some multiples of 5 are 5, 10, 15, 20 . . .

What does "factor" mean?

• the numbers you multiply together to get another number

  for example, the factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3, and 6, because 1 x 6 = 6 and 2 x 3 = 6

• something you think about

• the numbers you get when you multiply a certain number by another number

• the answer to a subtraction problem

What does "addends" mean?

• the numbers you multiply together to get another number

• the answer to an addition problem

• any number that is added to another

• the last piece of pizza

What does "plus" mean?

• subtract

• divide

• add

• multiply