Math Factors

Question 1

What is a prime number?

Answer 1

A number greater than 1 whose only factors are 1 and itself?

7 is a prime number and its factors are 7 and 1

Question 2

What is a composite number?

Answer 2

Number formed by multiplying two smaller numbers

12 is a composite number of 3 x 4

Question 3

What is a factor?

Answer 3

A number that divides into another number

The factors of 36 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36

Question 4

What is a factor pair?

Answer 4

Two numbers that can be multiplied together to get to the original number

2 and 3 are factor pair of 6

Question 5

What is a multiple?

Answer 5

The number you get when a number is multiplied by another number

The first six multiples of 2 are: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Question 6

Is 6 a multiple of 22?

Explain why or why not

Answer 6

No

There is not a number that 6 can be multiplied by to equal 22

Question 7

What are the factors of 24?

How do you know?

Answer 7

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24

Question 8

What are the factors of 30?

Why did you think that?

Answer 8

1,2,3,5,6,10,15,30

Question 9

Is 30 a composite number?

How do you know?

Answer 9

Yes

Because more than 1 and 30 can be multiplied to get 30

Question 10

What is a factor of 18?

Answer 10

Could be: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18

Question 11

What is a factor pair of 12?

Answer 11

1x12, or 2x6, or 3x4

Question 12

Is 13 a prime number?

How did you know?

Answer 12

Yes