Consumer Math | Shopping | Discount on Discounted Price | Calculating Percent

Consumer Math - Discount on Discounted Price Activity

Students apply strategies and work mathematically to calculate the amount paid after two consecutive discounts are applied.

Before students complete the tasks, the teacher and students complete the example question on page 1.

The example is also available in the Easel activity by TPT.

The teacher and students complete the activity using an easel pen or typing.

Key Learning:

- Calculating the amount paid after two consecutive discounts are applied

- Calculate the amount saved by paying cash.

- Compare two consecutive discounts and a single discount (the sum of two consecutive discounts) on the original price.

The activity comes in 2 styles.

• Style 1: Cover, fill in the blank example and tasks.
• Style 2: Cover, filled (completed) example and tasks.

Total pages for each set: 8 pages

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

Level of Difficulty: Beginner (Easy)

Grades: 5th to 9th

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 the overall change in a quantity following repeated percentage changes; for example, an increase of 10% followed by a decrease of 10% (ACMEM063)

"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

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