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Mathematics / Year 6 / Number and Algebra / Money and financial mathematics

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies (ACMNA132)

Elaborations
  • using authentic information to calculate prices on sale goods
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Percentages,  Discounts (Price)

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