Please note: This site contains links to websites not controlled by the Australian Government or ESA. Read more in the Terms of Use.
Factors and prime factors inquiry
A lesson designed to help explore factors and prime factorisation. The lesson encourages students to work collaboratively to explore prime factorisation through the use of a variety of examples. Students provide reasoning for their answers to further their knowledge and understanding of the topic.
Additional details |
|
| Year level(s) | Year 7 |
|---|---|
| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Evidence-based approaches, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Setting goals, Structuring lessons, Worked examples |
| Keywords | factors, prime number, prime factors, indices, integers, factorisation |
Curriculum alignment |
|
| Curriculum connections | Numeracy, ICT general capability |
| Strand and focus | Algebra, Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding |
| Topics | Operating with number, Patterns and algebra, Algebraic expressions, Indices, Integers, Multiplication and division |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M7N02
Represent natural numbers as products of powers of prime numbers using exponent notation |
| Numeracy progression |
Multiplicative strategies (P9)
|
Copyright details |
|
| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
Related resources
-
Variables and rules (9 lessons)
In this sequence of 9 lessons, students develop foundational algebraic skills, including notation, substitution and deriving algebraic formulas from patterns.
Resource details -
Multiplicative thinking (9 lessons)
In this sequence of 9 lessons, students explore multiplication and division involving fractions and decimals using visual models, written strategies, and problem-solving tasks.
Resource details -
Operating with numbers (8 lessons)
In this sequence of 8 lessons, students apply proportional reasoning and use the four operations with integers, fractions, decimals, and percentages in real-world contexts.
Resource details -
Variables in context (6 lessons)
In this sequence of 6 lessons, students learn to represent unknowns, expand and solve equations, classify shapes, and apply modelling in contextual worded problems.
Resource details -
Directed number - Level 7
This sequence of 6 lessons helps students master integer operations by covering addition, subtraction, and real-world applications of positive and negative integers.
Resource details -
Integers (Whole numbers) - Level 7
Sequence map of 6 lessons for Integers (Whole numbers), teaching students about powers, square roots and to solve linear equations.
Resource details -
Sum and product of fractions inquiry
The prompt challenges the students to find fractions that fulfil the requirements.
Resource details -
Rectangle ratios inquiry 1
Establish formulas for area of rectangles and use these in problem-solving. Recognising and solving simple ratios.
Resource details