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Factors and multiples
Using this prompt will challenge students to explore their understanding of factors and multiples. This inquiry will extend their understanding of high common factors and lowest common multiples, useful when dealing with operations with fractions. They need to find cases that satisfy the conditions set and then generalise their results. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.
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| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | factor, multiple, hcf, lcm |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Integers, Multiples, factors and powers, Properties of number |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7N02
Represent natural numbers as products of powers of prime numbers using exponent notation |
| Numeracy progression |
Multiplicative strategies (P9)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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