Have students write the answer to the essential question and draw examples to explain their answer. essential question is how can you use models to find factors?

Objective:

Understand what an essential question is & is not

Write one effectively

Definition: An essential question lies at the heart of a subject & promotes the asking of more questions to uncover more about the subject.

Example:

Modeling factors of Numbers:

A factor is a number multiplied by another number that gives a product.

every whole number greater than 1 has at least two factors, 1 and itself.

Use 20 tiles to make as many different arrays as you can.

factors are 4*5=20

2*10=20

1*20=20

factors of 20: 1,2,4,5,10 and 20.