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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Greatest Common Factor - GCF
This week we worked on finding the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of two numbers. Students already knew the strategy of listing the factors for each number and then finding the largest factor they both shared. We also introduced another factor using prime factorization. Here is a video Miss Holt found that shows the new way. Students may use either way they would like!