PRIME+TIME

Prime Time - Factors and Multiples Goals of the Unit:
 * Understand relationships among factors, multiples, divisors, and products
 * Recognize and use properties of prime and composite numbers, even and odd numbers, and square numbers
 * Use rectangles to represent the factors pairs of numbers
 * Develop strategies for finding factors and multiples, least common multiples, and greatest common factors
 * Recognize and use the fact that every whole number can be written in exactly one way as a product of prime numbers
 * Use factors and multiples to solve problems and explain some numerical facts of everyday life
 * Develop a variety of strategies for solving problems - building models, making lists and tables, drawing diagrams, and solving simpler problems

Opening Activity - Activate background knowledge. Give them a number - How many ways can you make this number? Explain. How do you think that this relates to what you can tell this unit is about by looking at the cover of the book and flipping through it.

Prime Time INVESTIGATION 1 Prime Time INVESTIGATION 2 Prime Time INVESTIGATION 3 Prime Time INVESTIGATION 4 Prime Time INVESTIGATION 5 FAVORITE NUMBER PROJECT