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Seventh graders practice determining the prime factorization of composite numbers. They create Christmas factor trees for prime numbers greater than 100. They decorate their final products with markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter and glue.

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prime factors, prime numbers

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prime factorization, prime numbers, math

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