Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identify Prime Numbers

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Identify prime numbers less than 100. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Relatively Prime Numbers and Polynomials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of relatively prime numbers and how this concept applies to polynomials. Examples are given and clearly explained.
Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: The Prime Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise but complete explanation of prime numbers. A variety of related topics are covered such as: A table of the first 400 Prime Numbers, Do Primes ever stop?, the Prime Number Theorem and Twin Primes.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Prime and Composite Numbers Intro

For Students 4th Standards
Discusses factors, prime and composite numbers, and why the number 1 is not prime or composite. Includes practice problems throughout, along with explanations of solutions.
Handout
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.
Activity
Wyzant

Wyzant: Prime Number List

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
WyzAnt provides a list of the prime numbers. The user decides how many primes to see and in what fashion--horizontally or vertically and in how many rows.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Identify Composite Numbers

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Identify composite numbers less than 100. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Activity
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.
Activity
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.
Unit Plan
Cool Math

Coolmath: Pre Algebra: Prime Factorizations

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this tutorial, students learn how to do prime factorization by a few different methods, including factor trees and factor stacks. The exercises work their way up from 2-digit numbers up to 5 digits. Includes practice problems.
Handout
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.
Website
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Basic Operations: Prime Factorization

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students learn about prime factorization. The resource consists of notes, step-by-step examples, and practice problems with solutions.
Handout
Other

The Prime Glossary: Rational Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a definition of what a rational number is. Gives examples and formulas. Very helpful.
Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Mathworld: Polynomial Factorization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses factoring of polynomials, giving a general definition, and many links to satisfy unfamiliar terminology. There are however very few examples.