Working Out a Discount

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Working Out a Discount

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Honest Joe is showing Declan the Dodgy Decorator around his Dodgy Discount Store! In this fractions song, Honest Joe is offering us a discount on some of his goods. He tells us what discounts are on offer in the form of a fraction. Our job is to work out how much money the discount will save us each time.

Curricula

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 2

  Years:

  Year 6, Year 5

  Subjects:

  • Mathematics

  Topics:

  • Number - Fractions (including decimals and percentages)
  • Number - fractions (including decimals and percentages)

  Programmes of Study:

  • solve problems which require knowing percentage and decimal equivalents of 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/5 , 2/5 , 4/5 and those fractions with a denominator of a multiple of 10 or 25
  • solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy

• Country

  Northern Ireland

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 2

  Years:

  P6, P7

  Subjects:

  • Mathematics and Numeracy

  Topics:

  • Number

  Programmes of Study:

  • Understand and use vulgar fractions, decimal fractions, and percentages and investigate how they are linked and the relationships between them.

• Country

  Scotland

  Level:

  Second

  Years:

  P6, P7

  Subjects:

  • Numeracy and Maths

  Topics:

  • Number, Money and Measure

  Programmes of Study:

  • I can show the equivalent forms of simple fractions, decimal fractions and percentages and can choose my preferred form when solving a problem, explaining my choice of method.
  • I have investigated the everyday contexts in which simple fractions, percentages or decimal fractions are used and can carry out the necessary calculations to solve related problems.

• Country

  Wales

  Step:

  PS 3

  Years:

  Year 5, Year 6

  Subjects:

  • Mathematics and Numeracy

  Topics:

  • The number system is used to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantities.

  Programmes of Study:

  • I can demonstrate my understanding that non-integer quantities can be represented using fractions (including fractions greater than 1), decimals and percentages. I can use my knowledge of equivalence to compare the size of simple fractions, decimals and percentages and I can convert between representations.
  • I can demonstrate my understanding that a fraction can be used as an operator or to represent division. I can understand the inverse relation between the denominator of a fraction and its value.

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