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Consumer arithmetic (Year 9)

This module from the AMSI 'The Improving Mathematics Education in Schools (TIMES) project' is for teachers who wish to consolidate their content knowledge on the topic of using percentages to calculate profit and loss and other financial calculations. There are sections that provide history and context for the topic, as well as exercises and examples of how to present and explain the concepts to students.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 8, Year 9
Audience	Teacher, School Leader
Purpose	Content knowledge
Format	Downloadable resources
Keywords	interest, profit, loss, percentage, GST, tax, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Number
Topics	Money and financial mathematics
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMNA189 Solve problems involving profit and loss, with and without digital technologies ACMNA211 Solve problems involving simple interest ACMNA229 Connect the compound interest formula to repeated applications of simple interest using appropriate digital technologies
Copyright details
Organisation	AMSI
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