Multiplication (What is multiplication?)

What is multiplication? Multiplication is when you take one number and add it together a number of times. … This is why multiplication is sometimes called “times”.  Example: 5 x 3 (5 multiplied by 3) = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15 We took the number 5 and added it together 3 times. More […]

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Whole numbers (What are whole numbers?)

Whole numbers are the set of numbers that include zero and all the natural numbers that we count with, like 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. What this set doesn’t cover are negative numbers and numbers that are communicate as fractions or decimals. In other words, whole numbers include zero and all positive integers. The set of whole numbers goes on forever.

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