Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Finding prime numbers in Year 4

In Year 4 we've been looking at prime numbers this week.

Some of us have been out in the playground, using the hundred square there:



Here's a how we did it:


Later we had a go in the classroom, using a photo of the hundred square (16 colour bitmap format):


and, on Paint, filling he numbers in the 5, 3, 7 and 2 times table with colour:


And there we have it: the grey ones (except for 1) are the prime numbers!

(also blogged on the Year 4 blog)

2 comments:

  1. :-) :-) Wish I could put a 100 grid in the college parking lot! Will have to settle for online images. But... this is the last time I'm going to tolerate the thoroughly obnoxious Google Blogs captcha.

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  2. Great lesson. The large color plastic pieces added an interesting element to the whole lesson. The kids seemed really engaged.

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