Number properties

• Commutative property of addition:

  the order two numbers are added doesn't matter
• The commutative property of multiplication

  the order two numbers are multiplied doesn't matter
• The associative property of addition:

  if you are adding numbers, it doesn't matter which ones are in brackets
• the associative property of multiplication:

  if you are multiplying numbers, it doesn't matter which ones are in brackets
• Distributive property:

  multiply each of the other terms by the first term