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Letter common factor A number that is a

factor of two or more numbers

common multiple A number that is a

multiple of two or more numbers
Dear Family, divisible A number is divisible by
another number if the quotient is a
Throughout the next few weeks, our math class will counting number and the remainder is
be working with factors, multiples, and patterns. zero.
The students will study and learn to find factors composite number A whole number
greater than 1 that has more than two
and multiples and work with number patterns. factors
Here is a sample of how your child will be taught. prime number A number that has
exactly two factors: 1 and itself

Find Factor Pairs

Use division to find all the factor pairs for 36. Tips
Divisibility rules can help. Divisibility
A whole number is divisible
Factors of 36 Divisibility Rules by another whole number
when the quotient is a
36 ÷ 1 = 36 1, 36 Every whole number is divisible by 1. whole number and the
2, 18 The number is even. It’s divisible by 2. remainder is 0.
36 ÷ 2 = 18

36 ÷ 3 = 12 3, 12 The sum of the digits is divisible by 3.

36 ÷ 6 = 6 6, 6 The number is even, and divisible by 3.

36 ÷ 9 = 4 9, 4 The sum of the digits is divisible by 9.

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Activity
Using the divisibility rules, have your child find all the factor pairs for
these numbers:
18, 48, 39, 63

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Capítulo

para la casa
factor común Un número que es factor de
dos o más números

común múltiplo Un número que es

múltiplo de dos o más números

Querida familia, divisible Un número es divisible entre otro

número si el cociente es un número entero
Durante las próximas semanas, en la clase de y el residuo es cero.

matemáticas trabajaremos con factores, múltiplos y número compuesto Un número entero

mayor que 1 que tiene más de dos factores
patrones. Aprenderemos a hallar factores y múltiplos y
a trabajar con patrones de números. número primo Un número que tiene
exactamente dos factores: 1 y él mismo
Este es un ejemplo de la manera como aprenderemos.

Hallar pares de factores

Usa la división para hallar todos los pares de factores para 36. Pistas
Las reglas de divisibilidad te pueden ayudar. Divisibilidad

Factores de 36 Reglas de divisibilidad Un número entero es divisible

entre otro número entero si el
36 ÷ 1 = 36 1, 36 Todos los números enteros son divisibles cociente es un número entero y
entre 1. el residuo es 0.

36 ÷ 2 = 18 2, 18 El número es par. Es divisible entre 2.

36 ÷ 3 = 12 3, 12 La suma de los dígitos es divisible entre 3.

36 ÷ 6 = 6 6, 6 El número es par y divisible entre 3.

36 ÷ 9 = 4 9, 4 La suma de los dígitos es divisible entre 9.

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Usando las reglas de divisibilidad, pida a su niño o niña que halle todos los
pares de factores para estos números: 18, 48, 39, 63.

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 Lesson 5.1
Name
Model Factors COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.4
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.

Use tiles to find all the factors of the product.

Record the arrays on grid paper and write the factors shown.
1. 15 2. 30 3. 45 4. 19

1 × 15 = 15
3 × 5 = 15
1, 3, 5, 15
5. 40 6. 36 7. 22 8. 4

9. 26 10. 49 11. 32 12. 23

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Solving
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13. Brooke has to set up 70 chairs in equal rows 14. Eduardo thinks of a number between
for the class talent show. But, there is not 1 and 20 that has exactly 5 factors.
room for more than 20 rows. What are the What number is he thinking of?
possible number of rows that Brooke could
set up?

______ ______

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Lesson Check (4.OA.4)
1. List all the factors of 24. 2. Natalia has 48 tiles. Write a factor pair for
the number 48.

Spiral Review (4.OA.1, 4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6)

3. The Pumpkin Patch is open every day. If it 4. What is the remainder in the division
sells 2,750 pounds of pumpkins each day, problem modeled below?
about how many pounds does it sell in
7 days?

5. Represent the model shown below using a 6. Channing jogs 10 miles a week. How many
multiplication equation. miles will she jog in 52 weeks?

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 Lesson 5.2
Name
Factors and Divisibility COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.4
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.

Is 6 a factor of the number? Write yes or no.

1. 36 2. 56 3. 42 4. 66

Think: 6 × 6 = 36
yes
Is 5 a factor of the number? Write yes or no.
5. 38 6. 45 7. 60 8. 39

List all the factor pairs in the table.

9. 10.
Factors of 12 Factors of 25

_×_=_ _, _ _×_=_ _, _

_×_=_ _, _ _×_=_ _, _

_×_=_ _, _

11. List all the factor pairs for 48. Make a table to help.

Problem
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Solving
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12. Bryson buys a bag of 64 plastic miniature 13. Lori wants to distribute 35 peaches equally
dinosaurs. Could he distribute them equally into baskets. She will use more than 1 but
into six storage containers and not have any fewer than 10 baskets. How many baskets
left over? Explain. does Lori need?

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Lesson Check (4.OA.4)
1. Write three numbers greater than 20 that 2. What digit(s) can be in the ones place of a
have 9 as a factor. number that has 5 as a factor?

Spiral Review (4.NBT.4, 4.NBT.5)

3. Write an expression that can be used to find 4. Jack broke apart 5 × 216 as (5 × 200) +
4 × 275 using mental math and properties (5 × 16) to multiply mentally. What strategy
of numbers. did Jack use?

5. Jordan has $55. She earns $67 by doing 6. Trina has 72 collector’s stamps. She puts 43
chores. How much money does Jordan of the stamps into a stamp book. How many
have now? stamps are left?
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Name
Lesson 5.3
Problem Solving • Common Factors
COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.4
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.

Solve each problem.

1. Grace is preparing grab bags for her store’s open house.

She has 24 candles, 16 pens, and 40 figurines. Each
Find the common
grab bag will have the same number of items, and all
factors of 24, 16,
the items in a bag will be the same. How many items and 40.
can Grace put in each bag?
1, 2,____
4, or 8 items
2. Simon is making wreaths to sell. He has 60 bows, 36 silk
roses, and 48 silk carnations. He wants to put the same
number of items on each wreath. All the items on a
wreath will be the same type. How many items
can Simon put on each wreath?
____

3. Justin has 20 pencils, 25 erasers, and 40 paper clips.

He organizes them into groups with the same number of
items in each group. All the items in a group will be the
same type. How many items can he put in each group?
____

4. A food bank has 50 cans of vegetables, 30 loaves of bread,

and 100 bottles of water. The volunteers will put the items
into boxes. Each box will have the same number of
food items and all the items in the box will be the same
type. How many items can they put in each box?
____
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5. A debate competition has participants from three different

schools: 15 from James Elementary, 18 from George
Washington School, and 12 from the MLK Jr. Academy.
All teams must have the same number of students.
Each team can have only students from the same school.
How many students can be on each team?
____

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Lesson Check (4.OA.4)
1. What are all the common factors of 2. What are all the common factors of 15, 45,
24, 64, and 88? and 90?

Spiral Review (4.NBT.5, 4.NBT.6)

3. Dan puts $11 of his allowance in his savings 4. James is reading a book that is 1,400 pages.
account every week. How much money will He will read the same number of pages
he have after 15 weeks? each day. If he reads the book in 7 days,
how many pages will he read each day?

5. Emma volunteered at an animal shelter for 6. Write an expression that can be used to
a total of 119 hours over 6 weeks. Estimate multiply 6 × 198 mentally.
the number of hours she volunteered
each week.
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Name
Factors and Multiples COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.4
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.

Is the number a multiple of 8? Write yes or no.

1. 4 2. 8 3. 20 4. 40
Think: Since 4 × 2 = 8,
4 is a factor of 8, not a
multiple of 8.

no
List the next nine multiples of each number.
Find the common multiples.
5. Multiples of 4: 4, ___________

Multiples of 7: 7, ___________

Common multiples: __________

6. Multiples of 3: 3, ___________

Multiples of 9: 9, ___________

Common multiples: __________

7. Multiples of 6: 6, ___________

Multiples of 8: 8, ___________

Common multiples: __________

Tell whether 24 is a factor or multiple of the number.

Write factor, multiple, or neither.

8. 6 ___ 9. 36 ___ 10. 48 ___

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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
11. Ken paid $12 for two magazines. The cost of 12. Jodie bought some shirts for $6 each.
each magazine was a multiple of $3. What Marge bought some shirts for $8 each.
are the possible prices of the magazines? The girls spent the same amount of money
on shirts. What is the least amount they
could have spent?

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Lesson Check (4.OA.4)
1. Of the numbers listed below, which are 2. What number is a common multiple of
NOT multiples of 4? 5 and 9?

2, 4, 7, 8, 12, 15, 19, 24, 34

Spiral Review (4.OA.3, 4.NBT.2, 4.NBT.4, 4.NBT.5)

3. Jenny has 50 square tiles. She arranges the 4. Jerome added two numbers. The sum
tiles into a rectangular array of 4 rows. How was 83. One of the numbers was 45.
many tiles will be left over? What was the other number?

5. There are 18 rows of seats in the 6. The population of Riverdale is 6,735. What
auditorium. There are 24 seats in is the value of the 7 in the number 6,735?
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Name
Prime and Composite Numbers COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.4
Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.

Tell whether the number is prime or composite.

1. 47 2. 68 3. 52
Think: Does 47 have other
factors besides 1 and itself?

____ prime ____ ____

4. 63 5. 75 6. 31

____ ____ ____

7. 77 8. 59 9. 87

____ ____ ____

10. 72 11. 49 12. 73

____ ____ ____

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Solving
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13. Kai wrote the number 85 on the board. 14. Lisa says that 43 is a 2-digit odd number that
Is 85 prime or composite? Explain. is composite. Is she correct? Explain.

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1. Is the number 5 prime, composite, 2. Is the number 1 prime, composite,
or neither? or neither?

Spiral Review (4.OA.3, 4.NBT.2, 4.NBT.3, 4.NBT.6)

3. A recipe for a vegetable dish contains a 4. A store clerk has 45 shirts to pack in boxes.
total of 924 calories. The dish serves Each box holds 6 shirts. What is the
6 people. How many calories are in fewest boxes the clerk will need to pack
each serving? all the shirts?

5. A total of 152,909 people visited a national 6. What is the word form of the
park during one weekend. What is this number 602,107?
number rounded to the nearest
hundred thousand?
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Name
Lesson 5.6
Number Patterns
COMMON CORE STANDARD—4.OA.5
Generate and analyze patterns.

Use the rule to write the first twelve numbers in the pattern.
Describe another pattern in the numbers.
1. Rule: Add 8. First term: 5
Think: Add 8.

5 13 21 29 37

5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 45, 53, 61, 69, 77, 85, 93
All the terms are odd numbers.
2. Rule: Subtract 7. First term: 95

3. Rule: Add 15, subtract 10. First term: 4

4. Rule: Add 1, multiply by 2. First term: 2

Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
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5. Barb is making a bead necklace. She strings 6. An artist is arranging tiles in rows to decorate
1 white bead, then 3 blue beads, then 1 white a wall. Each new row has 2 fewer tiles than
bead, and so on. Write the numbers for the the row below it. If the first row has 23 tiles,
first eight beads that are white. What is the how many tiles will be in the seventh row?
rule for the pattern?

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1. The rule for a pattern is add 6. The first term 2. What are the next two terms in the pattern
is 5. Write the first five terms in the pattern. 3, 6, 5, 10, 9, 18, 17, . . .?

Spiral Review (4.OA.4, 4.NBT.4, 4.NBT.5)

3. To win a game, Roger needs to score 2,000 4. Sue wants to use mental math to find
points. So far, he has scored 837 points. 7 × 53. Write an expression she could use.
How many more points does Roger need
to score?

5. Pat listed all the numbers that have 15 as a 6. Complete the following sentence using the
multiple. Write the numbers in Pat’s list. correct term.

14 is a _____________ of 7 and 14.

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