Chapter 3: Playing With Numbers

Chapter Description

The Chapter 3 "Playing with Numbers" of Class 6 Maths CBSE textbook teaches you various types of numbers, their properties, and operations like addition and subtraction.

The chapter covers fundamental concepts of numbers including whole numbers, natural numbers, even and odd numbers, and looks into factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers, perfect numbers, and divisibility tests.

It also introduces students to prime factorization, common factors and multiples, and methods to find the Highest Common Factor (HCF) and the Least Common Multiple (LCM).

What Problems You Will Get?

• Basic Identifications: Identify even, odd, prime, composite numbers.
• Divisibility Tests: Apply divisibility rules to find out if numbers are divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
• Prime Factorization: Use division and factor tree methods to find prime factorizations.
• HCF and LCM: Find HCF and LCM using prime factorization, and division methods.
• Word Problems: Solve real-life problems involving factors, multiples, HCF, and LCM.

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