Homework for Monday, February 2

Assignments:  Factor Choices
Today you selected homework based on your comfort with finding factors, factor trees, and having knowledge of prime factorization.  Please feel free to change your homework to one of the other choices if you are not happy with what you selected.  After all, it was your choice to begin with!  The only one I do not have a copy of is Choice B, but otherwise you're good to go.
A)  Finding Factors
In this assignment, you first find all of the factors of numbers.  Remember that 1 and that number itself ARE factors.
Next you are to identify the prime factors of each number; these are different from prime numbers.  Don't remember what a prime number is?  It's any number that only has two factors:  1 and itself.
Prime factors are factors that are prime numbers, but please note that one is NOT a prime factor (or a prime number) because it's "special."  Just go with that.  ;-)
At the bottom half of the page you will identify common factors and then greatest common factors between the given numbers.  You have all had experience with this, so this shouldn't be new to you, just review!
B) Factor Trees
There are pretty good directions on this page that move towards creating your own factor tree by the bottom.  What you are doing is breaking down a number into all of the prime factors that make up that number.  Every number has a unique set of prime factors or "prime factorization."  For example, 16 is the only number made by multiplying 2 x 2 x 2 x 2.  Makes sense when you think about it, eh?
C) Prime Factors of Monomials
Assuming that you've done factor trees and know what prime factorization is, this worksheet moves you to thinking about how to write that with exponents, then transferring that idea/pattern to a set of variables.  I have an example on the page, but if that doesn't work for you, switch back to assignment "A" and we can go over the variables at a math lunch if you are interested.
Q)  Quizlet - please practice the "fraction factors" set in "Learn" mode.
Absent?  Look at your choices and choose from there.  ;-)
Due Tuesday