Factors and multiples – Year 5 maths lesson

For parents: how to use this lesson

You don't need to know this topic yourself. The lesson explains each step on screen, the way Mr Euclid, our Head of Maths, likes it: one tidy step at a time. Every answer is marked straight away with a worked explanation, so you never have to mark anything.

1. Read what your child will learn together.
2. Press Start the lesson below and sit with your child for the teaching and the worked examples (about 19 minutes).
3. Let them do the practice on their own. They choose Getting started, On track or Challenge – start on On track and move up after a few right in a row.
4. Finish with the exit ticket and the talk question: “How do you know when you have found all the factors?”
5. Later that day or the next day: the homework (20 minutes), then a practice test.

Watch out for

• Mixing up factors and multiples. Factors are few and fit inside; multiples go on for ever.
• Missing a factor pair (e.g. 3 × 12 for 36). Work up from 1 in order and stop when the pairs meet.

Miss Hypatia's tip for home: Arrange 12 or 24 objects (biscuits, coins) into equal rows in as many ways as possible.