Operational Strategies and Algebraic Thinking · Number and Algebra

Properties of Numbers

Identifying prime, composite, square, and triangular numbers.

Key Questions

  1. 1What makes a prime number the building block of all other whole numbers?
  2. 2How can we use arrays to visualize the difference between square and triangular numbers?
  3. 3Why can no even number other than two be a prime number?

ACARA Content Descriptions

AC9M5N04AC9M5N05
Year: Year 5
Subject: Mathematics
Unit: Operational Strategies and Algebraic Thinking
Period: Number and Algebra

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