29/06/21

WALT:
LCM and HCF
Find the lowest common multiple of 2 or more numbers.
Find the HCF of 2 or more factors

WILF:
Is the answer to: Is the answer to: Is the answer to:

What is the Lowest Bus A and Bus B are at the Peter is completing an art
common multiple of: bus station at 10.00am. project. He has two pieces
8 and 10 Bus A arrives at the bus of construction paper. The
15 and 25 station at station every 30first piece is 44cm wide
  minutes. and the second piece is
Find the highest common Bus B arrives at the station
33cm wide.
factor of: every 40 minutes. Peter wants to cut the
When will bus A and bus B paper into strips that are
35 and 63 meet at the station again? equal in width and are as
54 and 108 wide as possible.
How wide should Peter cut
Multiple each strip?
Lowest common multiple (LCM)
Keywords

Multiplication Divide Factor

Highest common factor (HCF)

Starter:
Find the 8th multiple of 4. 32

Is 25 a multiple of 7? No

Find all the multiples of 6 between 40 and 60. 42, 48, 54, 60

Add together the first three multiples of 4. 24

This number has multiples including 12, 15 and 18 3

This number is a multiple of 9, but is two less than a multiple 18

of 10. What is the number?
Add together all the factors of 8. 1+2+4+8=15

Is 7 a factor of 28? Yes

Add together all the old factors of 18. 1+3+9= 13

Lucy wants to divide 30 sweets in bags of equal amounts. How

many different ways can Lucy do this?
8

If Lucy eats one of the sweets. How many ways can she
organise the sweets into bags now? 2
Lowest Common Multiple:
The smallest number that is a multiple of two or more numbers.

eg2 Find the LCM of 6 and 4.

Multiples
Multiples of
of 6:
6: 66 12
12 18
18 24
24

Multiples
Multiples of
of 4:
4: 44 88 12
12 16
16

The
The LCM
LCM of
of 66 and
and 44 is
is 12.
12.

eg3 Find the LCM of 10 and 15.

Multiples
Multiples of
of 10:
10: 10
10 20
20 30
30 40
40

Multiples
Multiples of
of 15:
15: 15
15 30
30 45
45 60
60

The
The LCM
LCM of
of 10
10 and
and 15
15 is
is 30.
30.
Activity 2:
Find the Lowest common multiple of:
a 5 and 8 b 4 and 7 c 4 and 20 d 14 and 21
40 28 20 42
e 9 and 21 f 30 and 75 g 24 and 16 h 44 and 66
63 150 48 132

Peter is looking for the smallest number that can be divided by 2, 3 and 5.
What number is he looking for? 30
Amy is walking laps while her friend Francisco jogs on their city’s nature
trail. Amy completes one lap every 15 minutes, and Francisco finishes one
lap every 6 minutes.
How long will it be before they both finish a lap at the same time? 30 mins

Train A and Train B leave the station at 2pm.

Train A stops at the station every 40 minutes and train B stops at the
120 mins
station every 30 minutes.
2hours
What time will both trains next leave the station at the same time? 4pm
Juanita has fewer than 80 coins in her coin collection. She noticed that
she can divide her coins evenly into groups of 3, 5, 15, or 25.
How many coins does she have? 75
Highest Common Factor (HCF):
The biggest number that is a factor of two or more numbers.

eg2 Find the HCF of 10 and 15.

1 10 1 15

2 10
10 5 15
15
3 5

The
The HCF
HCF of
of 10
10 and
and 15
15 is
is 5.
5.

eg2 Find the HCF of 12 and 36.

1 12 1 36
2 6 2 18
3
12
12 36
36 12
3 4 4 9

The
The HCF
HCF of
of 12
12 and
and 36
36 is
is 12.
12.
Activity 2:
Find the highest common factor of the following number
a 18 and 12 b 15 and 20 c 15 and 18 d 13 and 23
6 5 3 1
e 30 and 75 f 36 and 54 g 24 and 72 h 18, 24 and 30
15 18 24 6

Marco has 21 apples and 49 pears. He wants to put them all in baskets so
each basket will have the same number of apples and pears. What is the
largest number of baskets he can make and still use up all his fruit? 7

Mariko has 36 stars, 132 circles, and 72 triangles. She wants to make as
many
identical rows as possible using all these shapes. How many rows can she
make? 12

Peter is completing an art project. He has two pieces of construction

paper. The first piece is 44cm wide and the second piece is 33cm wide.

Peter wants to cut the paper into strips that are equal in width and are as
wide as possible.

How wide should Peter cut each strip? 11cm

29/06/21
WALT:
LCM and HCF
Find the lowest common multiple of 2 or more numbers.
Find the HCF of 2 or more factors

WILF:
Is the answer to: Is the answer to: Is the answer to:

What is the Lowest Bus A and Bus B are at the Peter is completing an art
common multiple of: bus station at 10.00am. project. He has two pieces
8 and 10 Bus A arrives at the bus of construction paper. The
15 and 25 station at station every 30first piece is 44cm wide
  minutes. and the second piece is
Find the highest common Bus B arrives at the station
33cm wide.
factor of: every 40 minutes. Peter wants to cut the
When will bus A and bus B paper into strips that are
35 and 63 meet at the station again? equal in width and are as
54 and 108 wide as possible.
How wide should Peter cut
Multiple each strip?
Lowest common multiple (LCM)
Keywords

Multiplication Divide Factor

Highest common factor (HCF)