Consumer Math | Shopping | Cash or Lay-buy | Calculating Percent

Consumer Math flipbooks help students learn and understand methods of purchasing goods with cash or on a lay-by plan.

The flipbook comes in 2 styles.

• Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank notes and worksheets.
• Style 2: Cover, completed notes and worksheets.

Total pages in each flipbook: 13

Easy classroom preparation: Just print and glue each page in students’ notebooks or staple all pages together to make a flipbook.

Answer keys and students' folded notes are also included.

Before students complete the worksheets, the teacher and students complete the example questions.

Teacher displays the fill in the blank examples on transparency or whiteboard or uses Easel activity (included)

Students use a pen or type to complete the activity.

Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)

Grades: 5th to 9th

Key learning: Students

• Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (with cash or a lay-by plan)
• Calculate the amount saved by paying cash.
• Understand the lay-buy (lay-by) method.
• Finding the discount or deposit as a percentage of the marked price
• Finding the original (market) price
• Calculate the lay-buy deposit.
• Calculate each instalment on lay-buy.

Australian Curriculum:

• Solve financial problems involving purchasing goods (MA4-6NA)
• Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problems (MA4-2WM)
• Calculate a percentage of a given amount (ACMEM011)
• Determine one amount expressed as a percentage of another (ACMEM012)

"Purchasing Goods with Discounts" Resources:

Discount Scaffolded Note and Formulas

Discount Flipbook: Notes + Examples, Worksheets + Answers (Beginner)

Discount Worksheets + Answers (Advanced)

Successive Discounts Pair Task 1

Successive Discounts Pair Task 2

Consumer Math

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