Prime Factor Factory: Assembly Line
Processing Raw Numbers
Production Halted! The factory floor is overflowing with raw integers. As the Foreman of Prime Factor Factory, you must sort the Primes from the Composites and break them down into their atomic parts.
This game industrializes the abstract concepts of Factors and Multiples. Instead of dry lists, you're operating heavy machinery to crush numbers into their building blocks.
🏭 Operational Manual (Key Concepts)
- factors: Numbers that divide exactly into another (e.g., factors of 12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12).
- Common Factors: Numbers that are factors of two different numbers.
- Primes: Numbers with exactly two factors (1 and themselves). The "atoms" of maths.
- Prime Factorisation: Breaking a number down until only primes are left (e.g., 12 = 2 × 2 × 3).
Safety Inspector Report (Year 6)
Identification
Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
Vocabulary
Use the vocabulary of prime numbers, prime factors and composite (non-prime) numbers.
👨👩👧 Foreman's Advice
How to spot a prime:
- "If it's even and bigger than 2, it's NOT prime."
- "If the digits add up to a multiple of 3 (e.g., 51 -> 6), it divides by 3. NOT prime. (Except 3 itself)."