Teacher Resources for Week 3--Factors, Primes, Mod, etc
-Factor Game lesson plan: Students use the Factor Game to determine whether a given
number has many or only a few factors and to show how this property of numbers is
useful for problem solving.
http://www.illuminations.nctm.org/index_o.aspx?id=130
-Prime vs. Composite numbers lesson plan
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathPrimeVsCompositeNumbers7HS.htm
-Prime vs. Composite lesson plan using tiles
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathPrimeAndCompositeNumberTiles67.htm
-Understanding Factoring through geometry lesson plan
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/factor1.html
-Using divisibility tests to determine prime and composite numbers
http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol3/divisibility.html
-Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography lesson plan: lesson plans and activities for modular
arithmetic and cryptography
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/clock.html
-Modular Arithmetic activity: The Bracelet Game
http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/susan/number_bracelets/INDEX.HTM
-Modular Arithmetic activity: Encode and decode secret messages
http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/susan/modular/code.html
-Factorize activity: student activity that uses a grid to help with factoring numbers
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/factors/index.html
-Factor Tree activity: student activity that uses a tree diagram to factor numbers.
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_202_g_3_t_1.html