Thursday, 17 September 2015

Factors with Cuisenaire rods

We've been looking at the factors of numbers using Cuisenaire rods.  Here are some of our numbers:
Some numbers have lots of factors.
Some have only two - themselves and one - these ones we call prime numbers.



We've followed this up by looking at different ways of covering a chosen area with just one colour of rod.

See a gallery here:

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