Unit 1 · Standard 6.NS.4
Prime Factorization Flagship
Orbital Logistics Mission
Cargo Codebreak
You are the logistics officer aboard Station Helios. A shipment of 60 supply crates just docked, and the sorting robots can only distribute cargo once it is broken into its prime building blocks. Master prime factorization and the station eats this week.
My Notes Level 1 Support Level 2 Standard Level 3 Enrichment
Today's objectives
Content Objective: I can write a number as a product of its prime factors using a factor tree.
Language Objective: I can explain how I broke a number down using the words prime number, composite number, factor, and exponent.
📖 See Learn It for the explanation and worked examples, and the Vocab tab for the words. These are your notes to fill in and keep.
✏️ Fill in each blank as we go. Use the Word Bank to help you.
👆 Tap any word to see what it means and a picture.
Level 3: try the blanks from memory first, then check the bank.
- 1A whole number greater than 1 with exactly two factors, 1 and itself, is a number.
- 2A whole number greater than 1 that has more than two factors is a number.
- 3 — Writing a number as prime numbers multiplied together.
- 4I can break a number into its prime factors step by step using a .
- 5In 2³, the small number 3 is the and it shows 2 is multiplied 3 times.
Reflect — Exit Ticket
What is the prime factorization of 40?
- 2 × 2 × 2 × 5
- 4 × 10
- 5 × 8
- 2 × 20