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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)
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Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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