STUDENT SHEET

Factors and Multiples — Multiples

Grade 7 · Lesson 2 · Dimensions 7A p.2
Math Book 7 · sheet 2
Warm-up — yesterday: Factors
List all the factors of 12.

What we are learning

A multiple is what you get by multiplying a number by a whole number. A number has finitely many factors and infinitely many multiples.

How it is done — keep this beside you

These steps stay on your page while you work. If you get stuck, find the step you are on and read it again before you put your hand up.

1
Factors of 6 — a list that ends.
1, 2, 3, 6
2
Multiples of 6 — start multiplying.
1, 2, 3, 6 6 × 1 = 6
3
6 × 2, 6 × 3.
1, 2, 3, 6 6 × 1 = 6 6, 12, 18
4
It never stops.
1, 2, 3, 6 6 × 1 = 6 6, 12, 18 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, …
5
Factors divide INTO it. Multiples come OUT of it.
1, 2, 3, 6 6 × 1 = 6 6, 12, 18 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, … factors: finite · multiples: infinite

Practice

I DOteacher builds it, nothing erased
Write the first five multiples of 7.
  1. 7 × 1, 7 × 2, 7 × 3, 7 × 4, 7 × 5.
  2. 7, 14, 21, 28, 35
WE DO 1together, on whiteboards
Write the first five multiples of 9.
Multiply, do not keep adding — adding is where errors creep in. Boards up.
WE DO 2together, on whiteboards
Is 48 a multiple of 6? Is 6 a factor of 48?
Two questions that are really one question.
YOU DOindependent, from the book
Book 7A p.2 — the Do section, clipped onto the slide
the book page
Ask yourself: “Is this number going IN, or coming OUT?”