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| An amount of money that you have or that you owe. |
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| A way to show repeated multiplication by the same factor. |
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| A mathematical phrase made up of numbers, variables, operation symbols, and/or grouping symbols. An expression does NOT contain symbols such as =, >, and <. |
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| Having a positive balance; having more money than is owed. |
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| Having a negative balance; owing more money than is available. |
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| Parentheses within parentheses in an expression. Expressions are evaluated from within the innermost parentheses outward following the order of operations. |
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| A way of writing a large number using a combination of numbers and words. |
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| A number that is the same distance from 0 on a number line as a given number but on the opposite side of 0. |
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Rules that tell the order in which operations in an expression should be carried out. The order of operations is:
1) Do operations inside grouping symbols first.
2) Calculate all the expressions with exponents.
3) Multiply and divide in order from left to right
4) Add and subtract in order form left to right |
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| ( ) Grouping symbols used to indicate which operations in an expression should be done first. |
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| A system for writing numbers in which a number is written as the product of a power of 10 and a number that is at least 1 and less than 10. Scientific notation allows you to write big and small numbers with only a few symbols. |
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| Our most common way of representing whole numbers, integers, and decimals. Standard notation is base-ten, place-value numeration. |
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