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Prime factors
This prompt is based on the Prime Climb game. It has multiple possibilities depending on the questions students pose (or are posed by the teacher). Students look for patterns and connections between the numbers and colours. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6, Year 7 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation |
| Keywords | prime number, pattern, composite |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Algebra, Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Multiples, factors and powers |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M6N02
Identify and describe the properties of prime, composite and square numbers and use these properties to solve problems and simplify calculations
AC9M7N02
Represent natural numbers as products of powers of prime numbers using exponent notation |
| Numeracy progression |
Multiplicative strategies (P9)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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