Math-5-Greatest Common Factor Lesson Plan
Math-5-Greatest Common Factor Lesson Plan
Math-5-Greatest Common Factor Lesson Plan
CCSS-ELD-PI.5.1.Ex. Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative
discussions on a range of social and academic topics
CCSS-ELD-PI.5.3.Ex. Offering and supporting opinions and negotiating with others in communicative
exchanges
Learning Objective/Goal:
Students will determine the common factors and the greatest common factor of a set of numbers.
Introduction (3 minutes)
Teacher will start by presenting the objective of the lesson and telling students what they will be learning
about which is the greatest common factor. Before beginning, teacher will write the GCF on the board
and ask students to break down each word and share out the meaning of each word.
Anticipation student response: Greatest means biggest, common means the same, and factor is the
numbers that are multiplied together to get the product.
Taking the student response, combine all ideas and tells students that we will be finding greatest factors
from numbers that are the same.
Guide students in creating a prime factorization tree for both numbers. Then ask students which common
prime numbers do both numbers have. After, take the common number and multiply the numbers to get
the GCF.
Tell students that they will now learn the second method to solving for the GCF. The second method
involves students thinking about all of the factors that can make up both numbers. Taking 12 and 18, ask
students to give you all of the possible factors of each number. Write the factors down and then order the
factors from least to greatest. Explain to students that ordering the numbers will allow students to see the
common factors. Circle the common factors. Ask students which common factor is the greatest.
Tell students that it is their turn to try both of these methods. Tell students to take out their white board.
Present problem 16, 24
Monitor students are they complete both methods for the problem. Go over problem after as a whole
class.
Allow students to pair up with their clock partner and work on the guided practice.
Closure (2 minutes)
After collecting the independent practice, teacher will ask students to share what they learned in todays
lesson. Teacher will also ask students to share out the two ways that can be use to solve for the greatest
common factor.