{"id":47253,"date":"2024-05-12T00:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T00:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47253"},"modified":"2024-05-12T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T00:28:29","slug":"math-fun-with-prime-factorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-fun-with-prime-factorization\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: fun with prime factorization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, you notice interesting details. The tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFact: 42 goes into 252.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne might not notice, as first, that 42 goes into 252. However, 9 does (2+5+2=9); dividing, we see that 9&#215;28=252. From there, one can break down 9, then 28, to yield the prime factorization 2*2*3*3*7. One sees, within that combination (after some rearranging), (2*3*7)*(2*3). In fact, 252=42*6.<\/p>\n<p>\nSuch is one of the &#8220;other&#8221; times tables:)\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Travers, Kenneth et al. <em>Using Advanced Algebra.<\/em> Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1977.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, you notice interesting details. The tutor mentions one. Fact: 42 goes into 252. One might not notice, as first, that 42 goes into 252. However, 9 does (2+5+2=9); dividing, we see that 9&#215;28=252. From there, one can break &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-fun-with-prime-factorization\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: fun with prime factorization<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,1145,3145],"class_list":["post-47253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-divisibility","tag-prime-factorization","tag-times-tables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47255,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47253\/revisions\/47255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}