Mathematics

Factors and primes

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Mr Maseko
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Try this
Fill in the blanks in the calculations below using positive integers

8= x
16 = x

Find all the possible integer solutions?

How do you know you have found them all?

Draw a diagram to represent each of your calculations

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Connect
Factor pairs
A factor of a number is an integer that divides exactly into the
number without leaving a remainder.

Example: 8 has four factors; 1, 2, 4, 8 How many factors does 16 have?

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 Independent task

1) State all the factors numbers for the integers

from 1 to 12. What do you notice?

2) Which integer(s) have the most factor pairs?

Which have the least?

3) Which integers have an odd number of

factors? Why?
I used counters to help find all the
factor pairs of 4. There are 2 factor pairs
but only 3 distinct factors.

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Explore
A prime number has exactly two factors

a) Find the first 10 prime numbers.

b) How many of the even numbers from 4 – 30 can be

written as the sum of 2 primes?

Can you find an even number

greater than 2 that can’t be
written as the sum of 2 primes?