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Primes and prime factors (Year 7)
This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the topic of primes and prime factors. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.
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Year level(s) | Year 7, Year 8, Year 6 |
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Audience | Teacher, School Leader |
Purpose | Content knowledge |
Format | Downloadable resources |
Keywords | prime, factor, LCM, HCF, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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Strand and focus | Number |
Topics | Multiples, factors and powers |
AC: Mathematics content descriptions |
ACMNA149
Investigate index notation and represent whole numbers as products of powers of prime numbers
ACMNA182
Use index notation with numbers to establish the index laws with positive integral indices and the zero index
ACMNA209
Apply index laws to numerical expressions with integer indices
ACMNA210
Express numbers in scientific notation
ACMNA264
Define rational and irrational numbers and perform operations with surds and fractional indices
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Copyright details |
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Organisation | AMSI |
Copyright | © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0. |
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