Commutative property It makes no difference in which order two numbers are multiplied. The commutative property does not apply to division
Factor One of two or more numbers that are multiplied together to obtain a product. Factors are whole numbers which can be divided exactly into a given number.
Multiple A multiple of a number is the product of that number and an integer.
Multiplication 
An operation on two numbers that tells how many in all. The first number is the number of sets and the second number tells how many in each set. When multiplying we use the times sign 'x'.
We can think of multiplication as repeated addition. Students in early elementary school are taught multiplication in this way. In a multiplication question the first number is the number of sets and the second number tells how many in each set.
We might assume that multiplication always makes something larger. But this isn’t true if the number of sets is a decimal or a fraction, like ‘0.5 x 8’. We can write this as ‘half of one set of eight’, which is four.
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