Factoring

Breaking up is hard to do — unless you mean breaking big numbers up into their factors, that is! In this BrainPOP UK movie, Tim and Moby break down the basics of factorising. You’ll learn how all numbers are made up of factors that can be multiplied together to get a product. In this educational, animated movie you’ll discover how finding the HCF (or highest common factor) of two numbers can be extremely useful when you’re tiling a bathroom. And you’ll explore the role of factor trees in breaking numbers down to their smallest whole pieces, a process called prime factorisation. That’s right...money doesn’t grow on trees, but numbers certainly do!

Related movies: Prime Numbers, Order of Calculation, Multiplying and Dividing Fractions, Multiplication

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