The hunt is on! Young mathematicians follow clues and complete a series of ten math puzzles as they try to crack Dr. Integer's code and find the location of his hidden treasure.

Visit Purplemath.com for a lesson on finding the prime factorization of numbers. Numerous examples are worked through step by step.

Students input a number to be factored and the WyzAnt calculator does the rest. Limitations include the fact that numbers which are negative or which contain primes bigger than 541 cannot be handled.

Twenty-four problems present a variety of problems working with finding the greatest common factor and finding prime factorizations. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of...