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Illustrative Mathematics

Bake Sale

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Put math into action with the real-life scenario of a bake sale. The participants at this bake sale are ready to divide their fresh-baked cookies into bags. It is up to your number crunchers to help decide how many cookies should go in...
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101 Questions

Shipping Routes

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The product of the hard work is learning. Scholars use a simulation tool to collect information to analyze. They must decide when two ships traveling back and forth across a river at different rates will meet on the same side. The intent...
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Shmoop

ELA - Literacy.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.6

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Key to understanding scientific or technical texts is identifying the underlying question the author is attempting to answer. Provide your young scientists with an opportunity to practice identifying these questions and the procedures...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

What van Leeuwenhoek Saw

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
When van Leeuwenhoek saw cells and single-celled organisms for the first time, he knew these small things were a big deal! Share his discoveries with young learners through a narrated video, model-building activity, and scale study....
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Lcm & Gcf

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Purplemath shows an easy and orderly way to determine the GCF and LCM of any two numbers. Even large numbers won't be a challenge with this method.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Find the Least Common Multiple of Some Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Use this site to find the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of any set of numbers. Simply type in your numbers, and the site will provide the answer complete with a full explanation.
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Other

Help With Fractions: Finding the Least Common Multiple

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website gives an excellent explanation of how to find the least common multiple. It offers two different methods and gives easy to follow step by step directions.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Gcf's and Lcm's Least Common Multiple

For Students 7th - 9th
These prealgebra-arithmetic lessons explains greatest common factors (GCF's) and least common multiples (LCM's) and shows how to find them.
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Least Common Multiple: Math Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This tool allows you to create worksheets where students must find the lowest common factor in a set of two to four whole numbers.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Gcf's and Lcm's Common Multiples

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
These prealgebra-arithmetic lessons explain greatest common factors (GCF's) and least common multiples (LCM's) and show how to find them.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Greatest Common Factors, Least Common Multiples

For Students 9th - 10th
Math Forum response to request for info on how to find greatest common factors, and how this compares to least common multiples. Explanation includes examples of each.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Oliver's Method

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students discover a relationship between the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) and the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two numbers. Students will find and justify the relationship that the product of two numbers is equal to the product of the...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Graphing Calculator Practice Problems Number Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice using your graphing calculator for number theory problems, including prime factorization, greatest common factor, least common multiple, and scientific notation. If you get stumped or if you would like to check your work, then...
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Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Eight Nine Math (Page 1)

For Students 9th - 10th
Review a variety of number sense skills using this interactive worksheet. Concepts include greatest common factor, lowest common multiple, rounding to the nearest thousandth, and determining percent. Answers can be checked immediately...
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Algebra Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Purplemath contains about 40 different lessons on various algebra topics. The lessons are divided into five different sections: preliminary topics, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, advanced algebra, and word problems. The lessons...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Sticks

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic, factors, and multiples skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.

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