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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.
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| Year level(s) | Year 6 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Downloadable resources |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Culturally responsive pedagogies, Explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| 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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| Organisation | Queensland University of Technology |
| Copyright | © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. |
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