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title: "Factor pairs"
url: "https://boarshawprimary.co.uk/blog/2016-04-28-16-01-42-factor-pairs"
school: "Boarshaw Primary School"
---

# Factor pairs

  ![Image of Factor pairs](https://files.schudio.com/boarshawprimary/images/blog/P1070593.JPG)  28 April 2016   [Year 5](https://boarshawprimary.co.uk/blog/category/year-5)

#### In Maths this week, Year 4 have been investigating **FACTORS!**

#### We began by using equipment such as cubes to group numbers in different ways as arrays.

#### This helped us to find and list every factor of the numbers we were investigating before organising them into factor pairs.

#### We created posters to show our factor pairs in different ways, including drawings of our arrays, factor pair rainbows and number sentences.

#### Some children moved on to deepen their understanding of factors by trying to identify **ABUNDANT** numbers! These are numbers whose factors add up to a greater number than the original! (Eg. 48)

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