Activity:
Prime Numbers Game
How quickly do you notice prime numbers? Practice in this fun card game! As you try to you’ll develop speed and understanding. This game works best with more than 2 players, and it gets more exciting the more players you have! Study the first few prime numbers as you prepare to play. Remember the value of an Ace is 1.
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Term to Know:
Prime Number: a number with no factors except itself and 1 (The prime numbers you'll see during the game are 2, 3, 5, and 7. The number 1 is not a prime number and is instead classified as a unit.)
What You Need:
- Deck of Playing Cards (with face cards removed)
What You Do:
- Shuffle the cards and deal them face down to the players and ask the players to arrange their in a pile.
- Each round consists of all the players turning over the first card in their pack in an outward motion, giving every player a fair chance of seeing the card as it's turned over.
- When a prime is played, the first player to call out "prime" takes the card and any others that may be in the stack. If there's a tie, the pile should remain in the center and play should continue. If the number turned over isn't a prime number, leave the cards in the center of the table until a prime number appears and the cards are won.
- After a player wins cards, they must shuffle them into their deck before the game can continue.
- Play until one player has all the cards or set a time limit on the game and stop when time is up.
- The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities
that guide learners through different concepts and skills.
They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Understanding how our ten number system works enables students to see interesting and useful patterns and relationships in these math activities. These patterns allow students to develop more efficient mental math strategies when multiplying by multiples of 10 or 100. Students will also review rounding and apply this skill to larger numbers - up to 100,000’s place.
Understanding how our ten number system works enables students to see interesting and useful patterns and relationships in these math activities.
This lesson includes printable activities:
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Exercise: Find the Factors of Prime and Composite Numbers
Exercise: Place Value and the Thousands Place
Exercise: Comparing Multi-Digit Numbers
Exercise: Place Value and Multiplicative Comparisons
Exercise: Multiply by Multiples of Ten
Exercise: Place Value Up to Hundred Thousands Place
Exercise: Place Value Up to Ten Thousands Place
Exercise: Place Value and Numbers in Expanded Form
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 1,000
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 10000
Exercise: Rounding Multi-Digit Numbers to the Nearest 100,000
Exercise: Comparing Decimal Numbers
Exercise: Ordering Decimal Numbers
