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Mathematics / Year 7 / Number and Algebra / Number and place value
Curriculum content descriptions
Investigate index notation and represent whole numbers as products of powers of prime numbers (ACMNA149)
Elaborations
- defining and comparing prime and composite numbers and explaining the difference between them
- applying knowledge of factors to strategies for expressing whole numbers as products of powers of prime factors, such as repeated division by prime factors or creating factor trees
- solving problems involving lowest common multiples and greatest common divisors (highest common factors) for pairs of whole numbers by comparing their prime factorisation
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Indices, Prime numbers