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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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7
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
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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Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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