Class Reserach Questions & Student Objectives

Class Research Questions:

• How are prime, composite, and square numbers similar and different? 
• How does one locate the square root of a square number? 
• How does prime factorization help identify prime factors?

Student Objectives:
Students will master the following learning objective through this unit:

• Students will be able to...
• Identify prime, composite, and square numbers
• explain the difference between prime and composite numbers
• use the prime factorization process
• find the square root of a square number

In addition, students will understand...

• Key terms- prime number, composite number, square root, square number, prime factorization, and Sieve of Eratosthenes
• Composite numbers can be divided evenly by numbers others than 1 or itself
• Prime numbers can be divided evenly by 1 or itself.
• The number 1 is neither prime nor composite
• The square root of a number is a value, that when multiplied by