{"id":28005,"date":"2018-01-08T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=28005"},"modified":"2018-01-08T05:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:55:47","slug":"math-what-does-associative-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-what-does-associative-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: what does <i>associative<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring math, you mention definitions. The tutor defines <em>associative<\/em>.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"color:white;background-color:#2277ff;padding:16px;font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">associative<i>(adj)<\/i><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>independent of grouping: for instance, (a+b)+c = a+(b+c), meaning that addition is associative. Multiplication is associative as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gallian, Joseph A. <i>Contemporary Abstract Algebra<\/i>. Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, you mention definitions. The tutor defines associative. associative(adj): independent of grouping: for instance, (a+b)+c &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-what-does-associative-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: what does <i>associative<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2668],"class_list":["post-28005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-algebra","tag-definition-of-associative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28005"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28032,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28005\/revisions\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}