basic facts
Essential starting knowledge
Basic facts are fundamental pieces of information considered essential knowledge in a field, especially the arithmetic operations children memorize in elementary school: She's still learning her basic facts, Students should know their basic facts by third grade.
The phrase often appears in educational contexts referring to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relationships that become automatic with practice.
- fundamentalsCore elements of something
- first principlesBasic truths underlying reasoning
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
- bare essentialsAbsolute minimum required
- coreCentral essential portion
truth · plain truth · data · evidence · foundation · groundwork · ground zero · ABCs · primer · rudiments · need to know · building blocks · starting point · square one · key points · bottom line · reality · information
- multiplicationmultiplication, multiply, product, times tables, multiplier
- math tablestimes tables, multiplication table, addition table
- factsdatum, data, detail, details, truth
- additionsum, plus, add, addend, addition
- reference booksdictionary, dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri
basic factsnuance
Slight shade of difference
advanced concepts · theory · deep understanding · intricate details · complications
basic factsspeculation
Unproven theorizing or risky investment
conjecture · theory · opinion · hypothesis · theoretical framework
basic factsmisinformation
False data spread unintentionally
falsehoods · lies · fiction · myths · fabrications
basic, basics, basically, base, based, basing, bases, basal, baseline