Mathematical modelling: Discounts
In this lesson, students are provided with a real-world problem related to shopping. The problem centres around gathering evidence to answer the question: ‘How does choosing sale items affect your grocery costs over a year?’ Introduce the 4-step problem-solving model to guide students to use mathematical modelling.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Mathematical modelling Money and financial mathematics
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P9) Multiplicative strategies (P8) Understanding money (P8)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- financial literacy
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