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Mathematics / Year 4 / Number and Algebra / Money and financial mathematics

Curriculum content descriptions

Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and without digital technologies (ACMNA080)

Elaborations
  • recognising that not all countries use dollars and cents, eg India uses rupees.
  • carrying out calculations in another currency as well as in dollars and cents, and identifying both as decimal systems
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Money,  Purchasing

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