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Learning About Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of prime and composite numbers. In this prime and composite numbers lesson, students determine if a number is prime or composite.
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Am I Am I Prime?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders determine if a number is prime or composite.  For 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...
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the concept of prime and composite numbers. They use a review of multiplication to help explain factoring. Students are taught the definition of a prime and composite number and then practice independently.
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the concepts of composite and prime numbers. They factor different numbers and determine the number of factors for each. Based upon this information the number is declared prime or composite.
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Prime and Composite

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice implementing manipulative's to assess composite and prime numbers. They formulate representations of rational numbers in a variety of ways including graph paper, sieves of Eratosthenes and multiple worksheets.
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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 activity, 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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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore prime and composite numbers. Given division problems, they use color tiles to model solutions to division problems. Through activities and observation, 8th graders discover the meaning of prime and composite...
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify prime and composite numbers and complete an activity problem. Given a 100 chart, they follow directions to create a prime number chart. In groups, 6th graders play a "Prime Take Away" activity to reinforce prime...
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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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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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Prime Time

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners 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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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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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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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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Optical Illusion

For Students 3rd - 6th
Number theory gets a workout in an activity that asks individuals to identify and color code the prime numbers and the composite numbers in the provided graphic.
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of prime and composite numbers. In this prime and composite numbers lesson plan, students discover what makes a number prime or composite. Middle schoolers then practice identifying primes and...
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Sieve of Eratosthenes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the Sieve of Erathosthenes. They explore a method to find all the prime numbers in a group of numbers. Using models, students practice divisibility rules while examining the difference between prime and composite numbers.
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Mathematics: Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore how to apply the commutative property and the rules of divisibility. They examine the difference between prime and composite numbers.
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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 Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students differentiate between prime and composite numbers. For this algebra lesson, students define the terminology and investigate the contributions made by Eratosthenes and Euclid as it relates to prime numbers. Students apply the...
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Grade 5: Multiple Towers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use interlocking cubes to build towers to represent factors of numbers and place the towers in the appropriate places on a Tower chart in order to look for patterns. They work in partner groups, and finish by writing...
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders inspect prime and composite numbers. Using graph paper, they draw as many different shaped rectangles as possible. They use the dimensions of the rectangles to discuss prime and composite numbers. Students create a chart...
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ISTEP + Grade 6 Item Sampler

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this cross-curricular sampler of worksheets, students determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words, describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and...
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Prime and Composite Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify prime and composite numbers. In this prime and composites lesson plan, students are given the rules for identifying prime and composite numbers by the teacher, who gives examples on the board. Individuals then complete...