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Smart shopping

Students compare and calculate product prices and discounts using a variety of strategies (simple fractions, percentages, rates, ratios, subtraction). They investigate different shopping options and determine 'best buys' by calculating discount savings and offers.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies, Explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Build understanding
Topics	Fractions, Decimals, Percentage, Addition and subtraction, Money and financial mathematics
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 AC9M6N04 Apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals, using digital tools where appropriate; use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers AC9M6N09 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems, involving rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying the choices made
Numeracy progression	Additive strategies (P9) Interpreting fractions (P7) Multiplicative strategies (P8, P9) Number and place value (P8) Proportional thinking (P2) Understanding money (P8)
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