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Curated OER

Factor Trees

For Teachers 4th - 7th
For 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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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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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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Willow Tree

Factoring Polynomials

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

Prime Factorization: Finding Factors in the Fifth Grade

For Teachers 5th
The lesson starts out with a brain drain, which is a great way to get students to activate prior knowledge and build lasting connections. They tell everything they know about prime factorization, use their knowledge to...
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Curated OER

Prime Numbers and Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Solving factor trees is a helpful way to introduce prime numbers. Your math class practices using this method along with two-column tables to find if a number is prime or not. They also learn other vocabulary, such as composite numbers,...
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Curated OER

Greatest Common Factor: Using the Factor Tree

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students find the greatest common factor of two numbers. For this algebra lesson, students use prime factorization to find their factor to simplify equations. they create a factor tree to find the factors of composite numbers.
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EngageNY

Modeling Using Similarity

For Teachers 8th Standards
How do you find the lengths of items that cannot be directly measured? The 13th installment in a series of 16 has pupils use the similarity content learned in an earlier resource to solve real-world problems. Class members determine...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

How Old Is That Tree?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Fifth graders study environmental changes by examining the annual rings of a cross-section of a tree trunk. They access websites to complete a worksheet on the parts of a tree. They count the annual rings on a tree slice while observing...
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Curated OER

Factor Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice factor trees. They use Paint in Microsoft Word to create factor trees. After completion, they use a calculator to check their answers. In addition, they visit websites to reinforce the information.
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EngageNY

Between-Figure and Within-Figure Ratios

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Tie the unit together and see concepts click in your young mathematicians' minds. Scholars apply the properties of similar triangles to find heights of objects. They concentrate on the proportions built with known measures and solve to...
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Curated OER

Abiotic and Biotic Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine abiotic and biotic factors. They define biotic and abiotic, categorize a list of items onto a Venn diagram, label various items from areas on the school grounds as biotic or abiotic, and diagram a magazine picture.
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Curated OER

Super Factors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete activity pages. In this factors instructional activity, students practice finding the factors of numbers. They discuss prime factors and prime factorization and learn how to complete a factor tree.
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Curated OER

Super Size It, Please!

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Pupils take photos from a given distance and determine the height of the person using a scale factor. Pupils calculate the ratio of student actual height to student photo height. They take pictures from 3 different distances to see if...
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Curated OER

Introducing the Concept Prime Factors

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the prime factorization for 48 using different sets of factors. They find the prime factorization for 60.
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Curated OER

Transition to algebra

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students recognize the difference between a prime and a composite number.  In this prime and composite number instructional activity, students  use a factor tree model to show prime factorization. Students participate in a...
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Curated OER

The Fair Factor

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars participate in playing many games to determine if they are fair or not. They create their own game that is fair to play with their classmates.
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Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In these prime factorization worksheets, students make a factor tree of the given numbers and then write the answers using exponential notation. Students then use multiplication to check their factoring work. Students evaluate the...
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Curated OER

Prime & Composite Numbers: Algebra/Geometry Institute 2009

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners create factor trees.  In this prime and composite lesson, students model fractions using tiles.  They create factor trees and identify prime and composite numbers.  Learners use grid paper and tiles to model...
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Curated OER

Prime Time

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice determining the prime factorization of composite numbers. They create Christmas factor trees for prime numbers greater than 100. They decorate their final products with markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter...
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Curated OER

Mission: Finding the LCM using Prime Factorization

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this prime factorization worksheet, students find the least common multiple of the given pair of numbers using factor trees. Students solve 10 problems.
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Curated OER

Factorizations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students find the answers for finding the factors for each whole number. They could use factor trees to find the solutions.
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Curated OER

Chocolate Math

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice solving math equations by analyzing chocolate recipe measurements. In this chocolate baking math lesson plan, students read about the Hershey factory and recipes used to create chocolate bars. Students solve problems...
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Curated OER

Trees For Trout!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine the impact of native forests, local clearcuts and local clearcuts and local reforestation projects on the survivablity of Rainbow Trout in their area. They record and document the stages of the trout throughout...