Aim
Investigate the ease of prime factorization of composite number
What To Do
See this link: http://mathpickle.com/project/prime-time/
Notes
I sold this as the most useful piece of maths ever - given its use in ubiquity in RSA internet security
Prior to the game I did a short reminder on what prime and composite numbers are and discuss the prime factorization
We had a smaller group this week so we did just played the game in one big group - girls vs boys
It worked really well but we ran out of time before we got to the high numbers where the prime factorization becomes more difficult, so we may continue this another day.