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Lesson Plan Prime Factors

The lesson planning sheet outlines a lesson to teach students about prime factors. The objectives are for students to be able to decompose integers into their prime factors using index notation. Some students should also be able to solve equations using prime factor decomposition. The lesson involves discovering prime numbers, practicing decomposing integers, and solving an equation with prime factors.

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Lesson Plan Prime Factors

The lesson planning sheet outlines a lesson to teach students about prime factors. The objectives are for students to be able to decompose integers into their prime factors using index notation. Some students should also be able to solve equations using prime factor decomposition. The lesson involves discovering prime numbers, practicing decomposing integers, and solving an equation with prime factors.

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Lesson Planning Sheet Title: Prime Factors Learning Objectives: By the end of the lesson: All students should

ld be able to decompose an integer using its prime factors. Most students should be able to decompose an integer using its prime factors and write the product using index notation.

Some students should be able to solve equations such as 2m x 3k = 648 using prime number factorisation. Key words: Prime Factors, Prime Numbers, Decompose, Index Notation Learning Activities Starter/Introduction Use the Sieve of Eratosthenes for students to discover all the Prime Numbers less than one hundred. Starting at the first number with exactly two factors, 2, cross out all further multiples of 2, repeat for 3. 4 is discounted as a multiple of 2 to move on to 5 and repeat for 7 and s o on The aim of this is for students to discover the prime numbers rather than simply being told them. Alternatively the students could investigate as many numbers as possible that have exactly two factors. However, this may take some time. Development Now that Prime Numbers are known emphasise that any number can be broken down, or decomposed, using its prime factors. Either of the two methods of presenting the method is appropriate. Work through a couple of methods with the students, writing the factors using Index Notation. Students should then enter the number into a calculator using the instructions on slide 2 to confirm. When ready, the students should work through the questions on the third slide independently. They can check their solutions using the Prime Factor function on the calculators. Plenary The problem on the final slide is an extension to the concept and should be used to challenge the students. Ideally they will recognise the base numbers in the index notation uses only primes and therefore will decide to use prime factorisation to solve the equation. Have the students work through the problem on their mini-whiteboards for the teacher to assess at the end. Differentiation More able: Providing problems similar to the one in the plenary encourages the students to apply the skill of prime factorisation. Less Able Use numbers that are broken down using low value primes encourage the method to be consolidated. Students could use a calculator to break down the integers as opposed to only using it to check their solutions. Resources: 1 100 number grid. Calculator

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