Lesson One – Prime Numbers

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select, identify and record whether different numbers to one hundred can be classified as prime or composite numbers.
The class can model and record diagrams and multiplication calculations that can be used to prove whether a specific number to one hundred is a prime number with only itself and the number one as factors.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select, identify and record whether different numbers to one hundred can be classified as prime or composite numbers
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record different numbers to fifty for support levels and one hundred for core levels that can be classified as prime by recording matching pictorial diagrams and number calculations.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explain and suggest how they can classify a number to one hundred as either a prime or composite number using matching multiplication calculations.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to explore and illustrate the properties of numbers that can support multiplication calculations including prime, square and cube numbers and multiplication facts that can be used to derive division quotients. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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