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Consumer arithmetic
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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 8 Year 9 Year 10
- Purpose
- Planning Curriculum
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Money and financial mathematics
- Audience
- Teachers School leaders
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Proportional thinking (P6) Understanding money (P8) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P9)
- Publisher
- AMSI
- Copyright
- © The University of Melbourne. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0.
- Keywords
- percentage financial literacy
- Other terms
- GST tax
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