base
composite number
cube number
exponent
exponential form
factor
greatest common
factor (GCF)
lowest common
multiple (LCM)
multiple
pattern
perfect cube
perfect square
power
prime number
square number
square root
The factor repeated in a power.
4
Example: 3 is the base in the exponent 3 .
A number with three or more factors.
Example: 8 is a composite number because its
factors are 1, 2, 4, and 8.
A power with exponent 3.
3
Example: 8 is a cube number because 8 = 2
A number, shown in a smaller and raised (superscript), that
tells how many times the number before it is used as a factor.
5
Example: 5 is the exponent in 2
A representation of a product in which a number called the base is multiplied by itself.
The exponent is the number of times the base appears in the product.
Example: 54 is in exponential form, where 5 is the base and 4 is the exponent.
54 means 5 x 5 x 5 x 5.
Natural numbers that divide evenly into a given natural number.
Example: The factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12, because
all of these numbers divide evenly into 12.
The largest factor that two or more numbers have in
common. Example: The greatest common factor of
16 and 24 is 8.
The lowest multiple that is the same for two numbers.
Example: The lowest common multiple of 12 and 21
is 84.
The product of a given number and a natural number.
Example: Some multiples of 8 are 8, 16, 24, and 32.
Any attribute that repeats.
Examples: ◊ ◊ ◊ …, 25,50,75,100…,
1,4,9,16,25...
A number that can be expressed as the product of
three identical natural numbers.
Example: 8 = 2 x 2 x 2; thus 8 is a perfect square.
A number that can be expressed as the product of
two identical natural numbers.
Example: 9 = 3 x 3; thus 9 is a perfect square.
A number written in exponential form; a shorter way
of writing repeated multiplication.
3
Example: 4 x 4 x 4 can be expressed as 4 in exponential form.
A whole number greater than 1 that has only two
factors, itself and 1.
Examples: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 29, 31, and 43.
The product of a number multiplied by itself.
Example: 25 is the square of 5 because 5 x 5 = 25.
A number which, when multiplied by itself, results in a
given number.
Example: 5 is a square root of 25, because 5 x 5 = 25.