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.
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Copyright | © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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