Grade 6 - Number
Standard 6.N.3 - Practice finding the greatest common factor (GCF) between two numbers.
Included Skills: Number Properties
Demonstrate an understanding of factors and multiples by: • determining multiples and factors of numbers less than 100 • identifying prime and composite numbers • solving problems involving multiples. • Achievement Indicators • Students who have achieved this outcome(s) should be able to: - Identify multiples for a given number and explain the strategy used to identify them. - Determine all the whole number factors of a given number using arrays. - Identify the factors for a given number and explain the strategy used, e.g., concrete or visual representations, repeated division by prime numbers or factor trees. - Provide an example of a prime number and explain why it is a prime number. - Provide an example of a composite number and explain why it is a composite number. - Sort a given set of numbers as prime and composite. - Solve a given problem involving factors or multiples. - Explain why 0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite.