A teacher provides each of his students with 24 square tiles

A teacher provides each of his students with 24 square tiles. The he asks them how many rectangles they can form using the tiles, with no tiles left over. He has students repeat the process several times, each time with a different number of tiles. This activity would be particularly useful in helping students understand:

A. Least Common Multiples

B. The process of taking square roots

C. Fording Factor Pairs

D. Greatest Common Factors

Solution

24 can be represented as:

24 = 1x24

24 = 2x12

24 = 3x8

24 = 4x6

Then to make a rectangle the different pairs of tiles will be:

(1,24); (2,12); (3,8) and (4,6).

Thus this activity would be useful in helping students understand fording factor pairs.

So the correct choice is C.