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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This site provides students practice with the concept of least common multiples and greatest common factors. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Prime Factorization

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of prime factorization. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
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Other

Reuters: Boko Haram Kidnaps Wife of Cameroon's Vice Pm, Kills at Least Three

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the most recent terrorist acts by the group Boko Haram, including murder and the kidnapping of the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister. (Published July 27, 2014)
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Quia

Quia: Divisibility and Prime

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If you enjoy playing the game Battle Ship you will enjoy this game. When you locate an enemy ship to get the hit you must correctly answer a question using your knowledge of divisibility rules and prime numbers. It is a fun way to...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Two Primes Make One Square

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this one page website sharpen your logic, prime numbers and square numbers skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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Wyzant

Wyzant: Prime Factors Calculator

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Inca Temple: Number Sense

For Students 5th - 6th
Do you want to know how to pronounce really big numbers? Paul can teach you!
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Other

The Prime Pages: Sierpinski Number

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Tennessee provides a description of what the Sierpinski number is and what it does, as well as giving the formula and examples.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Conversation Piece

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
On this one page website sharpen your logic, division and prime number recognition skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Factorize

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This Shodor site gives a brief explanation of factorization, and it allows you "to find all of the factorizations of a given number and then draw the product as the area of a rectangle on a grid."
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Numeros Primos

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive unit explain what prime numbers are and how to find them. It also discuss the Sieve of Eratosthenes and the Mersenne number.
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Other

The Prime Glossary: Logarithmic Function

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary definition of a Logarithmic Function. Click on any of the terms in the article for more information about them.
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Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Prime Factorization Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this prime numbers calculator to find all prime factors of a given integer number up to 1 trillion. This calculator presents prime factors of a number, prime decomposition in exponential form, CSV (comma separated values) list of...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Factoring, Prime and Composite

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines factors, prime number, and composite numbers. It gives step-by-step instructions on how to list all the factors of a whole number and then identify the number as a prime number or...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Prime Factorization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of how to find the unique prime factorization of a number. An example is given and clearly explained.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Tom's Number

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the clues Tom gives you to figure out his number. The solution is right there on this one page website.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Factors Galore C: Prime Factorization

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use the calculator to find the prime factorization of a number.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Prime Factorization of Numbers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will climb math trees.
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: All Factors of a Number

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Great tool that will find all factors of a number, not just the prime factors.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Math Foundations: Divisibility and Primes: Divisibility Rules

For Students 6th - 8th
There are a few different rules that can make it easy to check if a number is divisible by another. In this lesson you will learn some of them such as,any number that ends in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 is divisible by 2, divisibility by 5 we...
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Other

Mersenne Prime Search: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Mersenne Prime Search is maintained by a group of mathematicians looking for the 5 largest prime numbers. An interesting site for students to watch mathematicians at work and explore the world of prime numbers.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Penta Primes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Using only the single digits listed make as many prime numbers as you can for this challenge. After you have your list you can check this one page website and it will show you the solution.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Composite Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of Composite Numbers. Several examples are given and clearly explained. Prime numbers are also described.
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National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Primos Gemelos

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A twin prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by two. Learn about them with these exercises.

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