Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Strategies for determining the greatest common factor of two or more numbers,
- Strategies for determining the least common multiple of two or more numbers,
- Strategies for determining the prime factorization of a number.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Apply strategies for determining greatest common factors and least common multiples.
- Apply strategies for determining the product of a number's prime factors in multiple forms which include exponential form and standard form.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Determining when two numbers have no common factors other than one means they are considered relatively prime.
- Composing and decomposing numbers provides insights into relationships among numbers.
Vocabulary
- Greatest common factor
- Least common multiple
- Exponential Form
- Prime Factorization
- Factors
- Multiples
- Prime
- Relatively Prime
- Composite
