Montessori Multiples & Common Multiples Task Cards

Help children understand multiples and common multiples through hands-on, Montessori-inspired math practice.

Multiples can be confusing when children only see them written as number lists. These task cards encourage children to lay out, build, compare, and continue multiples so they can actually see the patterns for themselves.

This printable resource is ideal for use with bead chains, number cards, hundred boards, skip counting materials, or other hands-on math materials.

Children will practise:

• Finding multiples

• Continuing skip counting patterns

• Understanding the word multiple

• Comparing two sets of multiples

• Finding common multiples

• Building early foundations for multiplication, factors, and fractions

Example tasks include:

• Lay out all the multiples of 6.

• Lay out all the multiples of 8.

• What are the next two multiples? 7, 14, 21, ___, ___

• Lay out the multiples of 2 and 5. Stop when you reach a multiple both numbers have in common.

• Lay out the multiples of 6 and 7. Stop when you reach a common multiple.

Included:

• Multiples task cards

• Common multiples task cards

• Practice with multiples of 2–12

• Pattern continuation prompts

• 10-page printable PDF

Perfect for:

• Montessori elementary classrooms

• Homeschool math

• Skip counting practice

• Multiplication follow-up work

• Math centers

• Small group lessons

• Children who need concrete, visual math support

Created by a Montessori-trained teacher

I’m a Montessori and state-trained teacher, and I create practical resources that help children understand math through concrete, hands-on learning. These task cards are designed to make multiples and common multiples easier to see, discuss, and practise independently.

Print, cut, laminate, and add them to your math shelf for simple, purposeful multiples practice.

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