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Numbers Count: What are factors?

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Numbers Count: What are factors?

SUBJECTS:  Maths

YEARS:  F–2, 5–6, 7–8


What are factors? Watch as the jelly babies in this clip show you!

What are the factors of 12?

How many factors does the number 11 have?

Try explaining to a friend what a prime number is.



Date of broadcast: 23-Feb-1999


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