This lesson is meant to motivate students to be interested in factoring and determining prime numbers. It motivates the students by providing information on the history of primality and factorization. Also, the lesson shows how factorization and prime numbers are utilized in real world situations. This lesson is also a review on how to determine prime numbers, greatest common factors, and foiling.
The PEER Program is composed of three grants entitled
"GK-12 Fellows Integrate Science/Math in Rural Middle Schools", "Integrating Environmental Health Science in Rural Schools,"
and a NCRR SEPA
grant entitled "Science Promotion in Rural Middle Schools".