Let’s go shopping!

In this lesson, we use the context of grocery shopping to engage students in calculating percentage discounts and the discovering real cost of items offered through different pricing discounts and offers.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Differentiated teaching, Explicit teaching
Keywords	discounts, efficient strategies, real world contexts, percentage, Maths Hub lesson plan
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Number
Topics	Money and financial mathematics, Fractions, Mathematical modelling, Percentage
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M6N07 Solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate AC9M6N08 Approximate numerical solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages, including financial contexts, using appropriate estimation strategies
Numeracy progression	Interpreting fractions (P7) Multiplicative strategies (P9) Understanding money (P8) Number and place value (P8) Proportional thinking (P2)
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Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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