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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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 7, Year 8, Year 6
Audience	Teacher, School Leader
Purpose	Content knowledge
Format	Downloadable resources
Keywords	prime, factor, LCM, HCF, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
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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Organisation	AMSI
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