Academic Vocabulary – Quotient
How often do you think of division as repeated subtraction? Maybe, I should ask:
Quotiens do you think of division as repeated subtraction? Yep, in Latin quotiens means ‘how often’! As in how often can you subtract 8 from 72?
If it sounds familiar, that’s because quotiens is the great-grandparent of ‘quotient’ the answer to a division problem.
Quotient comes from the Latin root ‘quot‘ meaning how many. How many threes are there in 12?
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