Maths glossary · New Zealand
Even number
A whole number that can be split into two equal groups with none left over.
Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. They are the numbers you reach when you skip count by 2s from 0.
Example: 14 is even because 14 objects can be shared into two groups of 7.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Multiplication and division.
Related words
- Product: The answer when you multiply numbers.
- Quotient: The answer when you divide.
- Factor: A whole number that divides another whole number exactly, with nothing left over.
- Prime number: A whole number greater than 1 with exactly two factors: 1 and itself.
- Multiple: The result of multiplying a number by a whole number.
- Array: Objects arranged in equal rows and columns.
- Odd number: A whole number that leaves 1 left over when split into two equal groups.
- Ratio: A comparison of two amounts, written with a colon, the word to, or as a fraction.
- Unit rate: A rate that compares an amount to exactly 1 of something.