Lesson Planning

Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:

10%

25%

50%

75%

3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper.

Assessment:
Objective 1: Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with
and without digital technologies (ACMNA132) (ACARA 2012).
Gearing down:
Work in a small group of students that struggle with these concepts and help them to understand the
basics of finding 10%.
Gearing up:
Challenge the students to find strategies for finding other percentages using 10%.
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Eg. 60% = 10% x 6 OR 50% - 10%

Materials
For teacher:
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Shopping items (concrete examples)

Price tags

Discount prices: 10%, 25%, 50% and 75%

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Gearing up: 5%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 15%, 35%, 45%, 55%,
65%, 85%, 95%

For students:
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Catalogues

A3 Paper

Introduce (20 minutes)

Before the class begins I will make sure the appropriate materials are prepared and ready to be
utilised.
Today we are going to continue learning about percentages. But, I am going to show you some new
little tricks that should make finding percentages a little easier for you.
Who can tell me what a percentage is? It is a part of a number.
Write on board. So if I wanted to buy a new iPad and it was going to cost $400. But I had a 10%
discount. Would 10% of $400 be bigger or smaller? Why? Because any percent lower than 100% is
smaller.
What would 10% of $400 be? There is a special rule when working with 10%. And with this special
rule you can easily find out 10%, 25%, 50% and 75%.
This video shows just how to do it.
Finding 10 percent of a number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0WYnXVLAGw
Use 10% of $400 as an example, get one of the students to volunteer to show the class where to move
decimal place.
Use a few more examples:
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10% of $1648

10% of $72.60

10% of $9.90

10% of $0.50

How do you guys feel about this way of finding 10%? It is much easier.
The special thing about being able to find 10% is that it can help you find every other kind of
fraction! We are going to focus on how it can help you find 25%, 50% and 75%.
Remember our example of the iPad.
We found that 10% of $400 was $40.
If we know that 10% = $40 how can we find out what the price would be if we only had a 5%
discount?
Can anyone think of a way we could do this?
Here is a video showing what I mean.

How to Use Percentages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=33&v=zVZQEAEdSAM

(0:06 - 1:26)
Knowing this how could we find 5% of $400?
How many times does 5 fit into 10?
10% = $40
$40/2 = 5%
5% = $20
How about 50%?
10% x 5 = 50%
Investigate (15 minutes)
Yesterday, I went shopping and I bought a few things.
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Candle = $30
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50% of $30

10% = $3

10% x 5 = 50%

$3 x 5 = 50%

$15 = 50%

Minecraft = $80
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75% of $80

How could we do this problem? There are several different ways.

Praise the children for their good work.

Our learning intentions for this lesson are
Go through the learning intentions and make them stick it into their books
Reflect/Summarise (5 minutes)
Bring the class back together.
What did we learn about today?
How did you feel about the videos and the activity?
Why do you think we learn about percentages?

Encourage the students to be aware of the different percentages that they can find in the real world.
Challenge them to work out the percentages for different things in their head!

$30.00
$80.00
$12.00
$640.00

10%
50%
5%
20%

25%
75%
15%
30%

80% 85%
90% 95%

35%
45%
60%
70%

40%
55%
65%
75%

Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:
10%
25%
50%
75%
3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper!
Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:
10%
25%
50%
75%
3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper!
Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:
10%
25%
50%
75%
3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper!
Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:
10%
25%
50%
75%
3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper!
Learning Intention:
1. Go shopping and choose 4 items and record their RRPs (recommended retail price). Make
sure you round your RRPs to the nearest dollar.
2. Design and plan in your maths books an advertisement for these items with the following
discounts:
10%
25%
50%
75%
3. Create your advertisement on A3 paper!