Factors, multiples, primes: Year 6 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Factors, multiples, primes. Students decompose composites into their prime factors and recognise primes as the building blocks of composite numbers. Students consolidate use of the distributive and commutative laws of multiplication to simplify calculations.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Number
Topics	Multiples, factors and powers
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6N02 Identify and describe the properties of prime, composite and square numbers and use these properties to solve problems and simplify calculations
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P7)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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