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Prime factors inquiry

This prompt is based on the Prime Climb game. It has multiple possibilities depending on the questions students pose (or are posed by the teacher). Students look for patterns and connections between the numbers and colours. The resource includes classroom examples, teacher notes and guided questions.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6, Year 7
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Assessment task, Extension, Student task, Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Collaborative learning, Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching, Feedback, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	prime number, pattern, composite
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Algebra, Number, Apply understanding, Build understanding
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 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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