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Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Prime Number Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This prime number calculator will find if a number is prime or composite. If it is composite the calculator will also find all of the factors of the composite number.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Wired Math: Primes and Prime Factors [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Explore primes, prime factors, and composites using this collection of worksheets. Lots of detailed examples, interesting math facts, and colorful visuals. Acrobat Reader required.
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Activity
Other

Eratosthenes' Prime Number Sieve

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover all the primes up to the number 400 by using this interactive table. Simply click on a number and its multiples disappear.
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Activity
Wyzant

Wyzant: Prime Factors Calculator

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students input a number to be factored and the WyzAnt calculator does the rest. Limitations include the fact that numbers which are negative or which contain primes bigger than 541 cannot be handled.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Amazon River Boat Trip: Multiplication and Division

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore prime and composite numbers, multiplication, and division with Julie throughout these interactive exercises.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Euclid's Theorems

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MathWorld.com provides a description of the theorems of Euclid and his theories of prime and composite numbers.
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Article
Cuemath

Cuemath: Prime Numbers

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Learn about the history of prime numbers, properties of prime numbers, and easy methods to find prime numbers. Included are solved examples and interactive problems for review.
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Activity
Elias Saab

Math Drills: Prime Factorization Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site is an interactive quiz which provides students with a prime factorization problem. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student needs them, and explanations are provided...
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Prime Number?

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Explains prime numbers and gives examples.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Factors and Multiples

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Students are introduced to prime numbers, composite numbers, prime factorization, greatest common factor, and least common multiple in this SMART whiteboard activity.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Favorite Number

For Teachers 4th - 7th
The activity allows students to review many of the number theory concepts. Students will pick a composite number write verbal expressions about the number, find the factors, prime factorization, list multiples, draw a cartoon character...
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Activity
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: La Criba De Eratostenes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Reinforce your knowledge about prime and composite numbers. Geogebra plugin required.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Inca Temple: Number Sense

For Students 5th - 6th
Do you want to know how to pronounce really big numbers? Paul can teach you!
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Number Sense Related to Division

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces divisibility, primes and composites, averages, and estimating quotients.
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Factorize

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Shodor site gives a brief explanation of factorization, and it allows you "to find all of the factorizations of a given number and then draw the product as the area of a rectangle on a grid."
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Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Number

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource defines numbers into two main categories, counting numbers and scalars. It also gives examples of number notation.
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Activity
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Divisores Y Primos

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Reinforce your knowledge on prime numbers and their divisors.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Greatest Common Factor

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this video, learn how to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. Then, see how this can be used to solve problems with large numbers. In the accompanying classroom activity, students learn to find prime factors using factor...
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Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Fractions, Number Theory

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty problems presented on the topics: factors, prime/composite and many aspects of working with fractions. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click...