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Comparing proportional quantities - Level 8

This sequence of 7 lessons empowers students to develop their mathematical modelling skills through hands-on activities focused on rates and financial concepts.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Explicit teaching, Differentiated teaching
Keywords	mathematical modelling financial maths, and time, speed, distance, complex percentage problems rates
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Algebra
Topics	Linear relationships, Non-linear relationships, Money and financial mathematics
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M8A03 Use mathematical modelling to solve applied problems involving linear relations , including financial contexts; formulate problems with linear functions, choosing a representation; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, reviewing the appropriateness of the model AC9M8A01 Create, expand, factorise, rearrange and simplify linear expressions, applying the associative, commutative, identity, distributive and inverse properties
Numeracy progression	Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P7)
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Organisation	Victoria State Government Department of Education
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