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Group/Whole Class Assignment 1-2 Days

Content Standard: M6N1. Students will understand the meaning of the four arithmetic operations as related to positive rational numbers and wiool use theseconcepts to solve problems. a. Apply factors and multiples. b. Decompose numbers into their prime factorization. c. Determine the greatest common factor and the least common multiple for a set of numbers. Objectives: Students should be able to find all the factors of a number by constructing or drawing arrays. Students should be able to list all the factors of any given number and discuss how they know that the number is prime, composite, or neither. Students should be able to determine the greatest common factor of two or more numbers and offer situations in which it would be useful to know common and greatest common factors of two or more numbers.

Activity 1: Back to School!

Part 1: Music You and your friends have tickets to attend a music concert. While standing in line, the promotion states he will give a free album download to each person that is a multiple of 2. He will also give a backstage pass to each fourth person and floor seats to each fifth person. Which person will receive the free album download, backstage pass, and floor seats? Explain the process you used to determine your answer.

Part 2: School Supplies The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) at your school donated school supplies to help increase student creativity and student success in the classroom. Your teacher would like you to create kits that include one package of colored pencils, one glue stick, and one ruler. When you receive the supplies, you notice the colored pencils are packaged 12 boxes to a case, the rulers are packaged 30 to a box, and glue sticks are packaged 4 to a box.

1. What is the smallest number of each supply you will need in order to make the kits and not have supplies left over? Explain your thought process. 2. How many packaged rulers, colored pencils, and glue sticks will you need in order to make the kits? Explain the process you used to determine how many packages are needed for each supply.

 The students will come in and sit in their assigned groups. The teacher will go over the activity with the students using a power point as a guide. The students will answer the questions as a group, then share their answers with the class. Power point Resources:

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