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all the factors of ... and/or write ... as a product of its prime factors
Personally Personally (assuming students find division hard to do) I like to teach students to write a number as its prime factors before I get them to find all the factors of the number., as
- I think the strategy for finding a product of prime factors requires easier division skills than finding all the factors
- the product of prime factors skill is useful in many situations (unlike the factor finding method) and the picture of the prime factor tree can then be used to find all the factors
factorPRIME - FACTORproductOFprime FFMcomparePPFM
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