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The cost of cars

A car is often the first big purchase someone makes. Having a car can be essential for employment and means greater independence, but there can be hidden or unfamiliar costs.

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Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Mathematics investigation
Keywords	banking, loans, financial literacy
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	HASS, The Arts, Technologies
Strand and focus	Number, Measurement
Topics	Mathematical modelling, Money and financial mathematics, Statistical investigations
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9M05 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving direct proportion, rates, ratio and scale, including financial contexts; formulate the problems and interpret solutions in terms of the situation; evaluate the model and report methods and findings AC9M9ST05 Plan and conduct statistical investigations involving the collection and analysis of different kinds of data; report findings and discuss the strength of evidence to support any conclusions? AC9M9ST03 Represent the distribution of multiple data sets for numerical variables using comparative representations; compare data distributions with consideration of centre, spread and shape, and the effect of outliers on these measures
Numeracy progression	Interpreting and representing data (P8) Proportional thinking (P7) Understanding money (P9) Number patterns and algebraic thinking (P8)
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Organisation	ASIC
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