Classroom Resource

Exploring Number Patterns to Discover Common Factors

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Overview

In this Cyberchase lesson plan, students explore different repeating patterns to predict when two or more events will occur at the same time. In the video segment, the CyberSquad examines patterns and beats in music. Students are encouraged to create patterns and draw conclusions. In doing so, they learn to predict the least common factor of up to three numbers.

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

MA19.4.4

For whole numbers in the range 1 to 100, find all factor pairs, identifying a number as a multiple of each of its factors.

Unpacked Content

UP:MA19.4.4

Vocabulary

  • Multiple
  • Factor
  • Prime
  • Composite
  • Whole number
  • Factor pair

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Factor pairs include two numbers that when multiplied result in a particular product.
  • Multiples are the result of multiplying two whole numbers.
  • How to identify a prime or composite number.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Find all factor pairs of a given number.
  • Identify a number as a multiple of each of its factors.
  • Determine whether a number is prime or composite.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • A whole number is a multiple of each of its factors.
  • Numbers can be classified as prime, composite, or neither, based on their properties and characteristics.
Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

MA19.4.5

Generate and analyze a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule.

Unpacked Content

UP:MA19.4.5

Vocabulary

  • Generate
  • Rule
  • Pattern
  • Sequence
  • Term
  • Continue
  • Identify
  • Explicit

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies for generating and recording number or shape patterns from a given rule.
  • Strategies for identifying and communicating shape and number patterns.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given a rule.
  • Analyze a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • A pattern is generated from a given rule.
  • The properties of a rule or pattern can be used to extend a pattern.
  • Some features of a given pattern are not explicit in the pattern's rule.
Link to Resource
https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.math.number.mul.lpfactor/explo…

CR Resource Type

Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

PBS
Accessibility
License

License Type

Custom

Custom License Type (URL)

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/help/terms-of-use/#restrictions

Approved Date

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