Practice Prime Factorizations
Activity, Stage 5 – Factoring With Primes
Do prime factorizations in order when you travel or have time on your hands. This also provides practice with talking about powers. Knowing prime factorizations with ease will be helpful in many things to come, such as working with fractions. Have fun with this and don’t push your child beyond their comfort level.
Recital
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The recital goes like this:
- is a unit
- is a prime
- is a prime
- is 2 squared
- is a prime
- is 2 times 3
- is a prime
- is 2 cubed
- is 3 squared
- is 2 times 5
- is a prime
- is 2 squared times 3
- is a prime
- is 2 times 7
- is 3 times 5
- is 2 to the fourth
- is a prime
- is 2 times 3 squared
- is a prime
- is 2 squared times 5
- is 3 times 7
- is 2 times 11
- is a prime
- is 2 cubed times 3