Learning Outcome:

Foundation
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Determine the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal to 100
and the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 10.
6.NS.B.4

A bigger ant nest requires more number of soldier ants to keep watch and maintain
order. Let’s organize more squads of soldier ants to keep the ant nest safe. You have to
determine the number of teams based on the various tasks.

1 Factors of 16: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16

Factors of 40: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 40

2 The red team has 4 majors.

Encircle the multiples of 4.
6, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20

3 The number of ant soldiers in a rapid

action team is equal to the GCF of 21
and 35.
The number of ants soldiers in a rapid

action team = 7

4 Two teams of military ants have 6 and 4

ants for internal safety. Determine the
LCM of 6 and 4.
If the LCM is an even number, write it in
the red box. If it is an odd number, write
it in the blue box.
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Determine the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less than or equal to
100 and the least common multiple of two whole numbers less than or equal to 10.
6.NS.B.4

The worker ants are busy moving all their belongings from the old nest to the new one. Apply
the knowledge of LCM and GCF to help the ants move the objects.

1 The ants have 15 mini wooden baskets and 45 leaf

baskets. They have to equally put all the baskets in
different compartments of a wooden train. What is the
greatest number of compartments that can be used?

15

2 The red and black ants transport a sugar cube in 6

minutes and 5 minutes, respectively. After how
much time will they meet again?

30 minutes

3 Number of red ants = 16

Number of white ants = 20
Determine the maximum number of teams that can be
formed with an equal number of ants in each team.

4 Three ants are carrying sticks around the ground. They take 3, 4 and 5 seconds to complete
a round. At which second will the three ants meet again?

At the 60th second

 Learning Outcome:
Create
Determine the greatest common factor of two whole numbers less
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than or equal to 100 and the least common multiple of two whole numbers
less than or equal to 10.
6.NS.B.4

The ant colony has 100 rooms. Each room has its own use. Make sure you allocate
the rooms in a way that they have only one purpose.

1. Every 15th room is a sugar room. Color those 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90
rooms brown.

2. Every 9th room has a twig outside. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90, 99
Color those rooms green.

3. Which sugar rooms will have twigs outside? 45 and 90

4. Queen Antilla’s room number is the LCM of 12 and

96
32. Color her room with the color of your choice.

5. The ant’s hospital is the room that is the GCF 6

of 84 and 66. Color this room red.

6. a) Two ants are visiting the ant hill. The guard ant
says, “The vacant rooms are numbered with the
common factors of 24 and 36.” Is she right?
Is there any room that is not vacant?
The common factors of 24 and
36 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12. Since,
6 is already occupied, the guard
ant is not right.

b) Assign any two rooms to each of the two new Since 6 is already occupied, let’s
ant visitors. Color the allocated room blue. allocate any other two rooms
(1, 2, 3, 4, 12).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100