Math Games

Grade 6 - Number

Standard 6.N.3 - Practice identifying prime and composite numbers.

Included Skills:

Demonstrate an understanding of factors and multiples by:
• determining multiples and factors of numbers less than 100.
• identifying prime and composite numbers.
• solving problems using multiples and factors.
• Identify multiples for a given number, and explain the strategy used to identify them.
• Determine all the whole number factors of a given number, using arrays.
• Identify the factors for a given number, and explain the strategy used; e.g., concrete or visual representations, repeated division by prime numbers, factor trees.
• Provide an example of a prime number, and explain why it is a prime number.
• Provide an example of a composite number, and explain why it is a composite number.
• Sort a given set of numbers as prime and composite.
• Solve a given problem involving factors or multiples.
• Explain why 0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite.