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Hannah Macanas
MIDDLE SCHOOL
• Planned strategies:
• guided questions,
• CRA methods
• Drawings
MY STUDENT
3 3 3 16
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4 16 4 3
Misconception
A factor is a number that “goes into” another number; you don’t have to use the same factor for each number.
He knows that numbers have factors and that they can be used to
simplify. I believe that he doesn’t quite understand that each
3 4 I asked why he simplified it that
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number is a factor of itself and that sometimes that is the greatest
way and he said, “because 2 goes common factor. He only seems to understand this when the
2 3 into 4 and 4 goes into 16” numbers are the same. For example, in similar problems, he would
cross out the 3s (like in this problem) and put ones there instead.
CRA STRATEGIES