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Factors and primes
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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 8 |
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| 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 |
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| Curriculum connections | ICT general capability, Numeracy |
| 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 content descriptions |
ACMNA183
Carry out the four operations with rational numbers and integers, using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies
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| National numeracy learning progression |
Additive strategies
Multiplicative strategies - MuS7 |
Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Inquiry Maths |
| Copyright | © Andrew Blair 2012-21. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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