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Unit #2: Primes and Powers
Explore the provided information below to find textbook and assignment downloads, practice quizzes, and other helpful videos and weblinks. Please note that due to copywrite regulations, all downloadable material below is password protected (students can obtain the password from Mr. Fischer).
Textbook and Workbook Downloads |
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Prime Factorization |
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Powers |
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Expanded Form and
Scientific Notation |
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Mulitplying and Dividing
by Powers of Ten |
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Order of Operations |
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ANSWERS |
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Practice Quizzes and Assignment Downloads |
Assessment Piece |
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Practice Quiz:
Prime Factorization
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This practice quiz covers the identification of primes and determining the prime factorization of composite numbers. This quiz is from the Nelson Education website. |
Practice Quiz:
Finding Factors
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This practice quiz covers finding common factors between two numbers using prime factorization. This quiz is from the Nelson Education website. |
Practice Quiz:
Powers
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This practice quiz covers the identification of evaluation of powers. This quiz is from the Nelson Education website. |
Practice Quiz:
Expanded Form
and Scientific Notation
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This practice quiz covers expanding numbers using powers of ten and writing numbers in scientific notation. This quiz is from the Nelson Education website. |
Assignment:
Powers of Ten
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In this assignment, student must use their knowledge of the rules for multiplying and dividing by powers of ten to manipulate numbers through a series of operations. |
Practice Quiz:
Order of Operations
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This practice quiz covers using the order of operations to evaluate expressions. This quiz is from the Nelson Education website. |
Assignment:
Operation Time
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In this assignment,
students must use the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8; the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; and exponents and brackets, to create mathematical expressions that equal numbers from 1 to 20.
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Helpful Videos and Weblinks |
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Description |
Online Game:
Grid Game (Factors and Multiples)
Source: Maths File (BBC Educational Resource) |
Find factors, multiples, powers, and prime numbers on a grid. This is a GREAT overall review of these concepts. This application requires shockwave. |
Online Practice:
Scientific Notation
Source: ThatQuiz.com |
Students must convert between numbers in scientific notation and those in standard notation. This is really good practice for those who want to brush up on their ability to write numbers in scientific notation. |
Online Practice:
Order of Operations - Basic
Source: Math Frog (University of Waterloo) |
This game is great to work on mental calculations! These problems do not involve brackets or exponents, but you still must be careful. The game challenges you to evaluate as many expressions as possible within a two minute time limit. |
Online Game:
Order of Operations - Advanced
Source: Harcourt School Publishers (e-lab) |
In this game, you are to choose which operation symbol (+, -, x, or ÷ ) is required in order for the equation to be true. There are only five question per game, so try the game several times to practice this skill. |
Online Practice:
Order of Operations - Order
Source: Explore Learning (Gizmos) |
This is a quick way to practice the order in which to solve problems using the order of operations. Click on the blue operations in the order in which they should be calculated. Those without accounts to Explore Learning will only have 5 minutes to use the gizmo. |
Created by:
Ian Fischer
St. Joseph High School
Ottawa, Canada
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