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a drawing of flowers in a vase with numbers on it and the number one is for each flower

People normally draw factor trees like this: This isn't right in three ways: First of all, it should be a tree that goes up and actually looks like a tree. As the prime factors are so important, they should stand out. And - the trees should be a bit more beautiful than this. We started off in Year 5 looking at factors using the Cuisenaire rods, to make the factor walls of numbers. This makes what a factor is so clear: Then we drew some different factor trees to investigate the question "What…

four different types of trees that have been drawn in the shape of balls and circles

nudging towards the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (and maybe to provide a reason why 1 is not considered to be a prime number any longer) this can be done with or without this sheet [e.g. pose the task of finding all the ways that 90 can be broken down] what are the missing products? factor trees drawn by students in Y5 at the International School of Toulouse see pinkmathematics what are the missing numbers? find a way to break down 720 into a product of prime factors that fits this…

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