Lesson 12 · Whole Numbers

HCF and LCM Presentation

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Unit 12 · HCF and LCM

HCF and LCM

Mathematics · Grade 7

What You Will Be Able To Do

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Find the HCF of two numbers by prime factors, not by listing

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Find the LCM the same way, with one rule changed

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Read a word problem and know instantly which of the two it wants

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Check your own answer in two seconds, using size and the product rule

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One looks downwards for something the numbers are built from. The other looks upwards for the first place they meet.

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Presenter notes: Open with two practical problems rather than two definitions, and do not name either idea yet. First: a floor 240 cm by 180 cm, and the largest square tile that fits with no cutting. Second: two buses leaving every 24 and 36 minutes, and when they next leave together. Ask the class which answer will be a small number and which will be a large one. They can tell without calculating anything, and that instinct is exactly what the whole lesson is going to formalise.