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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Factor Trees

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this factor trees worksheet, students make factor trees for 2 through 4 digit numbers. Students complete 20 factor trees for these numbers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Factor Trees

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math learning exercise, students read about how to create a factor tree. Students use factor trees to determine the prime factors of 16 numbers.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor

For Students 6th Standards
Find the common denominator between prime factors, factor trees, and the distributive property. Scholars learn to find the least common multiple and greatest common factor of pairs of numbers. They rotate through stations to connect...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Greatest Common Factor Using Factor Trees

For Students 6th Standards
Beginning with a description that sets the stage, learners are asked to break down the numbers 42 and 63 to find the greatest common denominator using factor trees. As they work through the factoring process, young mathematicians are...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using a Factor Tree to Find the GCF

For Students 4th - 6th
Learners use the example of a factor tree to find the greatest common factor of three numbers in four problems.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Greatest Common Factor

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
When one method isn't enough to teach GCF, try two! This interactive webpage introduces factors and the prime factor tree to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. After the lesson, have learners click to try the two examples...
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PPT
Curated OER

Factor Pairs

For Teachers 5th - 6th
This presentation covers a lot of ground. Square numbers, metal math computations, commutative property, ordering positive and negative integers, factoring, and real world problem solving are all covered. Use over the course of several...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Factor Tree Worksheet

For Students 9th - 10th
In this prime factorization worksheet, students use the factor tree method to solve four factorization problems. The numbers go up to the hundreds place.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Prime Factorization

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Deepen the number sense of young mathematicians by exploring the process of prime factorization. Follow along with this step-by-step presentation that explains how factor trees are used to break a composite number down into its prime...
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Activity
Math Learning Center

Grade 5 Supplement Set A2 – Number and Operations: Primes, Composites and Common Factors

For Teachers 5th Standards
Incorporate riddles into your math lesson by having students make tree factors and determine if the number is a prime or composite. They will also use other clues to find the answer to the riddle while sharpening their multiplication...
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Tree Diagrams

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
With so many toppings to chose from, make the ice cream truck combinations a fun math problem that teaches your learners about outcomes. The video introduces a tree diagram that allows your mathematicians to see how to create...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prime Factorize

For Students 5th - 7th
In this factorization worksheet, students prime factorize six numbers by using the factor tree method. The numbers given go up to the number 24.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

How Many Leaves on a Tree?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This is great go-to activity for those spring or fall days when the weather beckons your geometry class outside. Learners start with a small tree, devising strategies to accurately estimate the leaf count. They must then tackle the...
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Least Common Multiple

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
RJ instructs your sixth graders in two different methods of determining least common multiples. The first is by listing several multiples of each number, and the second is by drawing factor trees. This is an ideal flipped classroom...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

GCF by a factor tree

For Students 5th - 9th
In this greatest common factor worksheet, students find the greatest common factor of 2 two digit numbers in each problem using factor trees. Students complete 4 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Factor Trees: 2 digit numbers

For Students 5th - 10th
in this factors worksheet, students factorize 2 digit numbers by using the factor tree method. Students factorize 4, 2 digit numbers total.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Primes and Prime Factors

For Students 8th
In this primes and prime factors instructional activity, 8th graders solve 21 different problems to include identifying each number as prime, composite, or neither prime nor composite and listing all the primes less than 200. Then they...
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Lesson Plan
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Willow Tree

Factoring Polynomials

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Young mathematicians discover trees organize more than just families — they help factor, too. The instructional activity begins with factor trees and develops slowly to factoring by grouping and special patterns. 
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PBS

Human Tree: Ratios

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Create a personal tree. By visiting an exhibit at the National Museum of Mathematics, the resource introduces the idea of fractals. The exhibit takes an image of the person and creates a tree by repeating scaled images on the shoulders...
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Assessment
Mathed Up!

HCF, LCM, and Product of Primes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Give the class a prime example of using prime numbers. After reviewing prime factorization of numbers with the video, pupils use their knowledge to determine greatest common factors and least common multiples in the worksheet. The...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Unit 2 Section 2: Prime Factors

For Students 7th - 8th
In this prime factors worksheet, students make six factor trees. They tell the prime factorization for eight numbers. Students answer three questions regarding the prime factorization of numbers.
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Worksheet
Helping with Math

Prime Factorization with Factor Trees (2 of 2)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The publisher has tagged this resource as designed to meet CCSS.Math,Content.6.NS.4, but it really is only the first step in the process of determining least common multiples and greatest common factors. Six numbers are given for...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Make a Factor Tree

For Students 5th - 6th
In this factoring worksheet, students solve 9 problems in which a two or three digit number is factored using a factor tree. Each number is in its own box. There are no examples.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

LCM of 3 Numbers: Factor Trees

For Students 5th - 8th
In this lowest common multiples worksheet, students create factor trees to find the lowest common multiple of 3 numbers. Students complete 4 problems.