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Prime Time · Identify primes systematically · 3:33

You'll learn: Use a systematic sieve on a finite grid

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Sift a number grid for primes

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You'll learn: Use a systematic sieve on a finite grid

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Identify primes systematically

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Check a proposed prime carefully
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Check a proposed prime carefully
You'll learn: Use factors and counterexamples instead of appearance

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Understand coprime numbers

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Coprime describes a pair
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Coprime describes a pair
You'll learn: Recognise two numbers sharing only factor one
Composite numbers can be coprime
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Composite numbers can be coprime
You'll learn: Distinguish coprime pairs from pairs of primes
Coprime steps make a thread pattern
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Coprime steps make a thread pattern
You'll learn: Explore repeated jumps around a finite peg circle

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Build and interpret prime factorisation

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Break a number into prime building blocks
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Break a number into prime building blocks
You'll learn: Continue splitting until every factor is prime
Different trees give the same prime collection
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Different trees give the same prime collection
You'll learn: Check factorisation by multiplying back
Use prime tiles to check coprimality
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Use prime tiles to check coprimality
You'll learn: Find shared prime factors systematically
Use prime tiles to check divisibility
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Use prime tiles to check divisibility
You'll learn: Check that the divisor’s factors are all available

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Use and explain supported divisibility tests

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Divisibility by two five and ten
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Divisibility by two five and ten
You'll learn: Connect last-digit rules to place-value groups
Why the last two digits decide divisibility by four
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Why the last two digits decide divisibility by four
You'll learn: Use hundreds as complete groups of four
Why the last three digits decide divisibility by eight
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Why the last three digits decide divisibility by eight
You'll learn: Use thousands as complete groups of eight
Choose the right test and explain it
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Choose the right test and explain it
You'll learn: Apply the supported tests without confusing their rules

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Use factors and primes in number puzzles

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One number can be special in several ways
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One number can be special in several ways
You'll learn: Justify different valid classifications
Build a prime product grid
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Build a prime product grid
You'll learn: Use prime factors to meet row and column conditions
Explore perfect numbers and twin primes
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Explore perfect numbers and twin primes
You'll learn: Recognise the chapter’s special-number examples