Properties of number: factors, multiples, squares and cubes
Why this, why now
In this unit pupils develop their understanding of factors and multiples, then extend this knowledge to learn general divisibility tests for integers and develop strategies to determine the highest common factor and lowest common multiple of two or more integers.
Prior knowledge requirements
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Unit 2 / 10
Properties of number: factors, multiples, squares and cubes
In this unit pupils develop their understanding of factors and multiples, then extend this knowledge to learn general divisibility tests for integers and develop strategies to determine the highest common factor and lowest common multiple of two or more integers.
19 lessons- Divisibility tests for 4 and 8
- Listing factors
- Powers and roots using a calculator
- HCF or LCM
- Highest common factor
- Power notation
- Divisibility tests for 6 and 9
- Divisibility tests for 2 and 3
- Problem solving with factors, multiples, squares and cubes
- Square and cube roots
- Checking understanding of factors, multiples, squares and cubes
- Securing understanding of factors, multiples, squares and cubes
- Square and cube numbers
- Calculating integers from their prime factor expressions
- Listing multiples
- Checking understanding of prime numbers
- Expressing an integer as a product of its prime factors
- Lowest common multiple
- Divisibility tests for 5 and 10