Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Prime and Composite Numbers

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Nine true or false, multiple-choice, and discussion questions make up an interactive designed to reinforce scholars' knowledge of prime and composite numbers. A number chart reveals every prime number through 100. 
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Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students work with prime numbers. In this prime factorization lesson, students review writing numbers in their prime factorization form and solve multiple problems.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Greatest Common Factor Using Factor Trees

For Students 6th Standards
Beginning with a description that sets the stage, learners are asked to break down the numbers 42 and 63 to find the greatest common denominator using factor trees. As they work through the factoring process, young mathematicians are...
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Curated OER

Prime Numbers and Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Solving factor trees is a helpful way to introduce prime numbers. Your math class practices using this method along with two-column tables to find if a number is prime or not. They also learn other vocabulary, such as composite numbers,...
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Prime & Composite Numbers: Algebra/Geometry Institute 2009

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create factor trees.  In this prime and composite lesson, students model fractions using tiles.  They create factor trees and identify prime and composite numbers.  Students use grid paper and tiles to model...
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Transition to algebra

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students recognize the difference between a prime and a composite number.  In this prime and composite number lesson, students  use a factor tree model to show prime factorization. Students participate in a bingo activity....
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Prime Time

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice determining the prime factorization of composite numbers. They create Christmas factor trees for prime numbers greater than 100. They decorate their final products with markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter...
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What Are You - Prime or Composite

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of prime factorization. In this prime factorization lesson plan, students participate in an activity where they find the prime factorization and greatest common factor of a number derived from their name....
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Greatest Common Factor: Using the Factor Tree

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students find the greatest common factor of two numbers. For this algebra lesson, students use prime factorization to find their factor to simplify equations. they create a factor tree to find the factors of composite numbers.
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The Generation of Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the process of reducing fractions to simplest form by using a multiples grid. In this simplest form lesson, students pull different fractions out of a bag and then consult their grid to discover all the multiples that...
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Factoring Large Numbers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice applying the rules of divisibility.