Three Engaging Greatest Common Factor Worksheets

Supply students with these differentiated Greatest Common Factor Worksheets designed to make practicing GCF fun, visual, and effective! Perfect for upper elementary or middle school math classrooms, this 3-worksheet resource helps reinforce GCF skills through a variety of engaging formats. Whether your students thrive on puzzles, visual recognition, or hands-on tasks, this set has something for everyone. Plus, answer keys are included for quick and easy grading!

These greatest common factor worksheets include:

• GCF Maze: Students find the greatest common factor of two numbers to make their way from start to finish.
• GCF Multiple Choice Shading: Students identify the GCF of three numbers and shade the correct answer from three choices.
• GCF Cut and Paste: Students match number pairs to their greatest common factor by cutting and pasting the GCF underneath.

Using This Greatest Common Factor Worksheet Set

This greatest common factor worksheet set is great independent practice, but also has many other classroom uses. Here are a few other ways to utilize these worksheets: 

Math Centers: Set up each worksheet as a station in your math centers. Students can rotate through the maze, shading activity, and cut-and-paste task in small groups.
Partner Work: Have students collaborate! Working together on the maze or cut-and-paste encourages math talk and peer teaching, reinforcing understanding.
Interactive Notebook Addition: The cut-and-paste activity in these greatest common factor worksheets can be glued into math notebooks as a reference tool and review piece for future units.

Download Our Finding Greatest Common Factor Worksheet Set

We have created this finding greatest common factor worksheet set in both Google Slides and PDF formats. To download, click the drop-down arrow on the download button and choose the version you prefer.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher from Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

Additional Highest Common Factor Worksheet and Activity Resources

Looking for more highest common factor worksheet and activity resources? Not to worry, we’ve got you covered! Check out the resources below. 

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Greatest Common Factor – Task Cards

Practice how to find the greatest common factor (GCF) with this set of 24 task cards.

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Greatest Common Factor – Mini Book

Learn different strategies to find the greatest common factor with this mini-book.

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Greatest Common Factor and the Distributive Property Worksheets

Determine the GCF and use the distributive property to express the sum of two whole numbers as a multiplication equation with a common factor.