Hello- I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and you’re all ready for week 2 of home learning! I’ve started to learn a bit of Spanish using the Duolingo app, just for ten minutes a day- you should give it a go!
Year 5 and 6 maths task
Your learning today is factors.
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A factor is a number that divides into another number exactly and without leaving a remainder.
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Most numbers have an even number of factors; however, a square number has an odd number of factors.
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A prime number has only two factors – the number itself and 1.List the factors for the following numbers:18, 14, 16, 30, 25, 42, 48, 60
Are these statements true or false?
6 is a factor of 24 12 and 7 are factors of 72
3 is a factor of 27 1, 3 and 8 are factors of 48
8 is a factor of 54 2, 6 and 8 are factors of 42
Challenge: ‘sweets in a box’ problem
Reading task: inference
Look at this picture and answer the inference questions.
History/writing task
Watch the videos and create a fact sheet about the Vikings and how they lived. It would be great if you could take a photo and email it to me on nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org