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Description
Learning Target:
Prime Factorization
Standards
SWBAT use one of two methods to break a composite down into a product of prime numbers.
Notes:
Each station is designed to last for 15-20 minutes. Students complete two stations on Day 1 and their last station on Day 2
Each class is heterogeneously grouped. There are 16-20 students of varying abilities in each class.
Small groups determined by me are mostly homogenous and determined based on the pre-test students took before the unit began
and on formative assessments completed in class during the unit up until this point. Grouping changes every unit, or sometimes
twice per unit based on student performance.
Whole Group
Open
Direct/Teacher
Independent/Online
Introduction (Day 1)
Remediate/Accelerate
Practice/Assess/Inquire
Explore/Create/Action
Review (5
minutes or less):
Using white
boards, students
will identify
numbers written
on the board as
either prime or
composite. They
will also be asked
to provide
examples or prime
vs. composite
numbers.
Explain (5
minutes):
Accelerated Group (Those who knew prime
Students already
numbers previous to this unit and are familiar
know the routine
with the concept of greatest common factor)
for Math Stations.
I.
Complete Parts II and III from above (10
Use this time to tell
minutes)
students which
II.
Review GCF with students and then
groups they are in
instruct them on how to use prime
and which
factorization to find the GCF of
activities they have
larger/more difficult numbers (10
the choice to work
minutes).
on at each rotation.
Middle Group (Those who did well with the
previous lesson on prime numbers, but are not
yet familiar with the concept of GCF)
I.
Complete parts II-IV from above
Choice of: