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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.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Fractions Decimals Percentage Addition and subtraction Money and financial mathematics
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Additive strategies (P9) Interpreting fractions (P7) Multiplicative strategies (P8, P9) Number and place value (P8) Proportional thinking (P2) Understanding money (P8)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- fraction percentage place value money financial literacy
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.4 MB
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