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HCF and LCM inquiry 1
Using this prompt allows students to explore their understanding of factors and multiples and in particular highest common factors and lowest common multiples. These concepts are particularly useful to explore when beginning to deal with fractions with different denominators. 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, Algebra |
| 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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