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This lesson plan is for a 5th grade class on prime and composite numbers. The teacher will define prime numbers as having only two factors, 1 and itself, and composite numbers as having more than two factors. She will note that 1 is neither prime nor composite. Examples of factors for numbers like 8, 25, 13, and 36 will be provided. Students will then work in groups to identify two composite numbers and two prime numbers. Struggling students will use paper squares to represent factors of example numbers in different ways to visualize prime and composite concepts.

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Lucerogaytanlessonplan

This lesson plan is for a 5th grade class on prime and composite numbers. The teacher will define prime numbers as having only two factors, 1 and itself, and composite numbers as having more than two factors. She will note that 1 is neither prime nor composite. Examples of factors for numbers like 8, 25, 13, and 36 will be provided. Students will then work in groups to identify two composite numbers and two prime numbers. Struggling students will use paper squares to represent factors of example numbers in different ways to visualize prime and composite concepts.

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Name: Lucero Gaytan

Grade Level: 5th Grade

Title of Lesson: Prime and Composite Numbers


Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills/Standards:
(4) Algebraic reasoning. The student applies mathematical process standards to develop
concepts of expressions and equations. The student is expected to:
(A) identify prime and composite numbers
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Objective/Purpose: To be able to identify prime and composite numbers
Introduce Lesson: Students already know how to factor out numbers.
Example: These are the examples you can teach them:
Number
Factors of the number
8
1, 8, 2, 4
25
1, 25, 5, 5
13
Prime
36
1,36, 2,18, 3, 12, 4, 9,
1
Neither
Lesson: First, you will give them the definition of a prime and composite number
on the board.

A prime number has only two factors: 1 and itself.


A composite number has more than two factors.
The number 1 is neither prime nor composite.

Please stress that the number 1 is neither a prime nor a composite number.
Write the number 8 on the board and ask them the factors of 8 as a group as
your first example. Move on to the next example (25). Then the third one (13),
and so on Once they have an idea of the concept separate them into 4 groups
and ask them if they can come up with 2 composite numbers and 2 prime
numbers as a group.
Re-Teach: if student do not understand the lesson, give them all little paper
squares that I have provided on the green basket next my desk and ask them to
use the squares to represent with the squares the total of each of the examples.
If they can do it more than 1 way, then it is a composite number. If not, then it is a
prime.
Example the number 8

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