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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prime Time

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in activities to investigate properties of numbers. They identify prime and composite numbers and determine the patterns associated with these numbers. They answer questions associated with each activity.
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Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Factoring

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Build an understanding of factors and use it to write the prime factorization of numbers. After exploring key vocabulary, learners create prime factorization for given numbers. They then use the prime factorizations to determine the...
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Curated OER

Finding Meaning in the Badge

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Children who are three to five years old study two rank badges from the Qing dynasty to develop an understanding of social rank, language skills, and symbolism. The instructional activity is discussion-based and requires learners to...
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Curated OER

Am I Am I Prime?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders determine if a number is prime or composite.  In this determining if a number is prime or composite lesson, 7th graders use a website to help find all prime numbers between 1 and 100.  Students use a website to find...
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Curated OER

Introducing the Concept Prime Factors

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the prime factorization for 48 using different sets of factors. They find the prime factorization for 60.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prime Factors

For Students 9th - 10th
In this prime factor worksheet, students write numbers as a product of primes. Explanations and examples are provided prior to the exercise. This two-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Factors and Prime Factorization

For Students 6th
For this factors and prime factorization worksheet, 6th graders use examples to find all the factors for six numbers, then write six more numbers as products of prime factorization.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use prime factorization to identify prime and composite numbers. They use cubes to find factors. In groups, 5th graders draw rectangular arrays to discover prime numbers under 100.
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Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners work with prime numbers. In this prime factorization lesson, students review writing numbers in their prime factorization form and solve multiple problems.
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Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the problems while looking for the prime factors. There is an example at the top of the page.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prime and Composite Numbers, Prime Factorization

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research prime and composite numbers. With a partner, students use graph paper to draw rectangles of various sizes. They list the dimensions of rectangles and discuss how the dimensions relate to the factors of each number....
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Curated OER

Mission: Finding the LCM using Prime Factorization

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this prime factorization worksheet, students find the least common multiple of the given pair of numbers using factor trees. Students solve 10 problems.
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Curated OER

What Are You - Prime or Composite

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

Prime Numbers and Factors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students determine factors of numbers to 100 and identify prime factors; students differentiate prime and composite numbers by the factors of the numbers.
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Curated OER

Prime Real Estate

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze and discuss prime numbers and the Sieve of Eratosthenes, a procedure to sort out prime numbers. They identify the prime numbers from 1-100 by eliminating all the multiples of the first four prime numbers, and circle what...
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Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a lesson that focuses on the concept of finding the prime factorization of a number. They write the answer using exponential notation. Students play a game of Bingo to keep engaged during the lesson.
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Worksheet
Helping with Math

Factors with Prime and Composite Numbers (2 of 2)

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Ten two-digit numbers are listed for fourth graders to factor. Once they have factored each, they circle whether the original number is prime or composite. If you click on the "Print Worksheet" button, the printable spreads the problems...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prime Factorization

For Students 5th - 8th
In this prime factorization activity, students complete factor trees for 2 digit numbers to find their prime factorization. Students complete 6 problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Primes and Triples

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this primes worksheet, learners list three triples that are generated by formulas. They explain how to generate these formulas and discuss the Pythagorean Triples. This one-page worksheet contains one multi-step problem.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Study Jams! Greatest Common Factor

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
When one method isn't enough to teach GCF, try two! This interactive webpage introduces factors and the prime factor tree to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. After the lesson, have learners click to try the two examples...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prime Hunt On The Internet

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders find information about primes on the Internet. They use directions for Sieve of Eratosthenes to find primes in the first 100 numbers. After a lecture/demo, 8th graders access a website imbedded in this plan to explore...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Greatest Common Factor: Reteach

For Students 5th - 6th
In this greatest common factor worksheet, students review the different ways to find the greatest common factor for numbers including listing all the factors and finding prime factorization with factor trees. Students then list the...
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Curated OER

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. Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Factors and Prime Numbers

For Students 5th - 6th
In this factors and prime numbers worksheet, students solve 40 problems in which they find prime numbers, determine the factors of given numbers and figure out whether or not numbers are prime. This page is intended for online use but...