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Keywords like sum, add, combine, and more than indicate addition. Keywords like minus, difference, fewer, and take away indicate subtraction.
Keeping this in consideration, what are the key words for addition and subtraction?
The Basic Operations
Symbol | Words Used |
---|---|
+ | Addition, Add, Sum, Plus, Increase, Total |
− | Subtraction, Subtract, Minus, Less, Difference, Decrease, Take Away, Deduct |
× | Multiplication, Multiply, Product, By, Times, Lots Of |
÷ | Division, Divide, Quotient, Goes Into, How Many Times |
In this way, what are the keywords for multiplication?
Multiplication keywords
- Because PRODUCT OF is a leading keyword that corresponds to AND, underline the words before and after AND: “seven” and “a number.”
- Circle the leading keyword and indicate the corresponding AND that it defines.
- Translate each underlined expression and replace AND with a times sign.
Turn around words are words that cause the number to be written after the variable. The turn around words are "than" and "from". Anyone who teaches algebra I knows that students have trouble writing an algebraic expression for "4 less than 3 times a number" or "13 subtracted from a number is 20."