Lesson Plan – prime factor decomposition

Objectives
To write numbers in ‘prime factor decomposition’ form

Keywords factor prime square

Mental and Oral Starter

Students have a copy each of the decimal cards and arrange in ascending order.

Main
Recall what factors are, and prime numbers - show how a prime factor tree can grow - What
would happen if they did it differently to mine - students do the same number but breaking it
down differently in their books - show how we get the same in the end.
Show how to write the prime factors as powers.
Students do the three on the board.

Differentiation;
Plenary

Reflection Green Amber Red

Lesson Objectives

To write numbers in ‘prime factor’ form

Keywords R/A/G

factor prime
0.975 0.907
0.99 0.009
0.0995 0.999
0.1021 0.12
Prime Factor Decomposition
The PFD of a number is when you grow a number
tree and write the leaves as in their powers.
3 3
What sort of
9 2 numbers are the
leaves?
2 18 2 Why can’t we
5 use 1?
10
36
2x2x2x3x3x5

360 23 x 32 x 5 ANS
Prime Factor Decomposition

504 460 90
Find the highest common factor of
these pairs of numbers.
• 14 & 36
• 24 & 30
• 16 & 28
• 38 & 50
Find the Lowest common multiple
of these pairs of numbers.

• 8 & 15
• 24 & 19
• 16 & 32
• 28 & 52