Integers

Victorian Curriculum

• Duration - 4 weeks
• Investigate index notation and represent whole numbers as products of powers of prime numbers(VCMNA238)
• Investigate and use square roots of perfect square numbers (VCMNA239)
• Apply the associative, commutative and distributive laws to aid mental and written computation and make estimates for these computations (VCMNA240)
• Compare, order, add and subtract integers(VCMNA241)

Learning Goals:

By the end of the course, we will learn to:

• add and subtract whole positive numbers
• multiply and divide whole positive numbers
• identify factors, multiples, primes, composites, highest common factors, lowest common multiples
• add and subtract negative whole numbers
• multiply and divide negative whole numbers
• apply appropriate procedures for multiple operations of numbers

Success criteria

I have

• shown how to do calculations involving large numbers, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• created factor trees to find factors, and primes of numbers
• completed calculations that have negative numbers
• found Highest Common Factors and Lowest Common Multiples of groups of numbers

Key Vocabulary

integer, positive, negative, opposite, less than, greater than, smaller, smallest, larger, largest, operation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, brackets, sum, difference, product, quotient, evaluate, expression