Math pre-algebra

Hey guys, its Gabriel with the scribe of the day.

This was our “pod” of the day:

a) Use graphing paper to draw as many rectangles as possible that enclose on an area of 36 square units. (Each little square on the graphing paper counts as 1 square unit.)
b) List the dimensions of those rectangles.

Answer) you will get 5 rectangles of the following areas:

All of these numbers are factors of 36: 1,2,3,4,6,7,9,12,18,36

Then Mr. A asked us to give him what we think a “factor” is. We weren’t very accurate. His definition for factor was: A factor of a number “A” is an integer “B” that divides “A” with a remainder of zero. IF YOUR NUMBER DOES NOT HAVE A REMAINDER OF ZERO IT IS NOT A FACTOR.

According to Mr. A, the definition for a factor in our text books is too simple. Two or more numbers that are multiplied together to form a product, are called factors. That was the definition in your text books.

Then he asked us to list all the factors for 24. 24 factors are 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24. Factors can be negative and positive (-, +).

I pick Afik to be the next scribe

Oh! And by the way we didn’t have H.W. (homework)