Hands-on activities for the Prime Colours cards. Pick a topic, or start at the beginning.
Start here Multiplication triplets Explore the pack: find two cards that multiply to make a third, then turn them over to see the colours. How many triplets can you make?
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Times tables practice
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Factors
Find the factors, then count them
LCM and HCF
Shortest path: HCF and LCM
Ratio and proportion
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Fractions
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Area and perimeter
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Factorisation
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Indices and surds
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Mental models and manipulatives
Building with colours
Installing the model
Flash card practice: guess, test, self-assess
Multiplication as action
One disk change, one card change
Additive vs multiplicative
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Building with colours
The missing manipulative: build numbers from their prime factors, right in your browser.
Find the factors, then count them
Make every factor of a number from its own disks, in order, then look for factor patterns.
Flash card practice: guess, test, self-assess
Install the model a few minutes a day: read the colours, say the number, keep the ones you know.
Multiples hunt
Times tables, the Prime Colours way: Choose your times table. take turns to hunt down every multiple of 6.
Multiplication triplets
Explore the pack: find two cards that multiply to make a third, then turn them over to see the colours. How many triplets can you make?
One disk change, one card change
Multiplication and division as actions: change one disk at a time and build a chain of cards.
Shortest path: HCF and LCM
Get from one card to another one disk at a time. Two of the shortest paths pass through the HCF and the LCM.
Spot It
Pick a Card from the deck and place it in the centre, colour side up. Which numbers would you use to build it? Can you work out hat number it is
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