PRIME AND

COMPOSITE
NUMBERS
GRADE 5/6G

MRS DUNCAN
GOAL: TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PRIME AND
COMPOSITE NUMBERS ARE.
Success Criteria: Give yourself a rating for understanding
what prime and composite numbers are:
You have identified prime
numbers up to 100.
1. Novice
You have identified composite 2. Apprentice
numbers up to 100.
3. Practitioner
You understand how factors 4. Expert
effect prime and composite
numbers.
Write it in your book.
WHAT IS A PRIME NUMBER?
A prime number is a number that has EXACTLY
two factors (nor more and no less).

An easy way to identify a prime number is

that they can only be divided by 1 and the
number itselffor example 7, no other
numbers can be divided into 7 other than
1 and 7, so 7 is a prime number.
WHAT IS A FACTOR?
Factors are numbers that we multiply
together to get another whole number.
For example 2 and 3 are factors of 6.

2x3=6
WHAT IS A COMPOSITE
NUMBER?
 A composite number is a number that has more than two factors,
that is, it has more factors than just the number 1 and itself.

So if 2 and 3 are factors of 6, as are 1 and 6, then 6 must be a

composite number.

All even numbers are divisible by 2, so all even numbers greater than
2 are composite numbers.

All numbers that end in 5 are divisible by 5, therefore all numbers

that end in 5 and are greater than 5 are composite numbers.
WHAT ABOUT THE NUMBERS 0
AND 1?
The numbers 0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite.
Lets work this out
WHAT DID WE LEARN?
Give yourself a rating for understanding what Have we identified all prime
numbers up to 100?
prime and composite numbers are now:
Have we identified all
composite numbers up to 100?
1. Novice
2. Apprentice Do we understand what a factor
is?
3. Practitioner
4. Expert How many factors in a prime
number?

Write it in your book. Are 0 and 1 prime or a

composite numbers?