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What are the Prime Facts about Prime Numbers?

By | Ajit Singh

Almost half of the world that selects arts as a carrier by running away from mathematics believes that mathematics is the toughest and boring subject. You see in our life we came across so many things where we required the basic knowledge of mathematics. Maybe you need to find out how can you save money by adjusting your budget, you need to make a toy for someone; you have to fix some small furniture of your house by taking some measurements and many more. All of these things require a basic as well as an intermediate level of understanding of mathematics subject. So even if you thought you can easily run away from mathematics by selecting some other subject but you have to study mathematics at least in school years. That’s why you can’t run away from mathematics. You must have learned prime numbers 1 to 100 in school life. 

You use mathematics in every aspect of life such as calculating the budget of the month. Subtracting your expenses from the earnings and dividing pizza among your kids. You should not remember the mathematics formulas instead you should understand them. Almost every part of your life you deal with numbers and their different types. Therefore numbers are the first topic in mathematics. To understand money first you need to understand numbers well. There are different types of numbers prime numbers, odd numbers, even numbers, integers, and many more. You must have learned 1 to 100 consecutive number in the early years of your school. They are called natural numbers. As you know numbers starting from zero are known as whole numbers. The next step is reading and writing big numbers of three to five digits. Then you have to learn integers, fractions, and prime numbers. As you know each set of numbers have their own specific name. Now the question that arises here is why these sets of numbers have a specific name? The answer is because these sets of numbers have different properties that are why they are divided into different sets. You can be called these properties are also called facts. Every set of numbers have certain facts. If you understand those facts then you can easily solve any type of question on any set of numbers. Let’s see the prime facts about prime numbers:

  • Let’s understand the definition of a prime number. For that first, you have to understand which type of numbers will come in this category? The numbers that are only completely divisible by 1 and the same number itself are called the prime numbers.
  • Here the most important thing to remember is the prime number should not be divisible by any other number rather than one and the number itself. 
  • In other words, prime numbers are multiples of one and the same number itself. 
  • Now, most people make the mistake of writing one as the prime number. The prime fact is one is not a prime number because all other numbers of multiple of one. 
  • The second and most important prime fact about prime numbers is, 2 is even, first, and smallest prime number. All other even numbers except 2 are multiple of 2.
  • All other prime numbers except 2 are odd numbers.
  • Prime numbers start with 2. There are 25 prime numbers in 1 to 100.  

Now you must have understood how easy mathematics is if you study it by considering real-life examples. You can understand mathematics more practically if you study it from cuemath. Now you must have understood similarly by practicing more and more examples of any mathematics topic such as consecutive numbers you can easily understand them. Also, you should focus on some interesting facts about numbers rather than remembering to try to find our fun in them. So now don’t make your mathematics learning complicated connect them with your real-life examples. Make the mathematics subject interesting for your kids. Don’t let your kid think that mathematics is the most boring and complicated subject. Teach them mathematics concept-wise so that they can enjoy mathematics. 

 

 

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