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Product of factors inquiry

This prompt sets up a conjecture about the product of factors. Students form questions based on the conjecture and investigate their questions. The resource includes the prompt, teacher notes, guided questions and extension prompts.

Additional details
Year level(s)	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	product, factor
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding, Apply understanding
Topics	Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M7N02 Represent natural numbers as products of powers of prime numbers using exponent notation
Numeracy progression	Multiplicative strategies (P9)
Copyright details
Organisation	Inquiry Maths
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