How to find Multiples and Factors?

Finding multiples and factors is like playing with building blocks or sharing candies, it's fun and makes sense!

Imagine you have 12 candies. If you want to share them equally among friends, the number of friends that can get the same amount without any candy left over are your factors of 12. For example, if you give 3 candies each to 4 friends, both 3 and 4 are factors of 12.

On the other hand, multiples are like when you count in steps. If you take steps of 5, your path would be 5, 10, 15, 20, these numbers are all multiples of 5.

• When you're sharing candies (or toys), you’re looking for factors.
• When you're counting in steps (like jumping on a number line), you're finding multiples.

Think about it like this: If you have 6 blocks and stack them in groups, the sizes of those groups are your factors, and if you keep adding more stacks of that same size, those bigger numbers are your multiples. Simple, right?