Dazzling Discounts — Year 6 Maths Unit

Dazzling Discounts is a practical Year 6 mathematics unit that develops confident work with percentage discounts and sale prices. Students connect percentages with fractions and decimals, choose efficient calculation strategies, compare competing offers, and explain purchase decisions within a budget.

The 21-slide editable presentation provides explicit teaching and worked examples covering discount vocabulary, useful equivalent forms and benchmarks, decimal multiplication, fraction methods, final sale prices, percentage and fixed-dollar offers, budgeting and reasonableness checks. The unit plan extends the teaching through strategy posters, games, task cards, differentiated practice, a budget challenge, assessment, answers and a six-criteria rubric.

What's Included

• 32-page unit plan PDF
• 21-slide editable presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 questions and matching answer/explanation slides
• Decimal Method and Benchmark Method strategy posters
• Four-page Roll a Sale game
• Bargain Battle task cards with matching answers
• Equivalent Forms Warm-Up with answer page
• Finding the Discount benchmark and decimal practice with answers
• New Sale Prices core and extension practice with answers
• Compare the Bargains student and answer pages
• Sale Catalogue and $250 Budget Challenge with answers
• Two-page assessment with two answer pages
• Six-criteria marking rubric
• Combined Preview PDF

Learning Focus

• Equivalent percentages, fractions and decimals
• Discount amounts and final sale prices
• Decimal, benchmark and fraction calculation strategies
• Percentage discounts compared with fixed-dollar savings
• Estimation and reasonableness checks
• Budget planning, choice and mathematical justification

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and guided examples, then select the game, task cards and worksheets for whole-class practice, small-group work, rotations, homework or independent consolidation. The core and extension pages support differentiation. Finish with the editable quiz, two-page assessment and rubric. The complete sequence suits approximately five lessons or one teaching week.

Curriculum Alignment

• Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9M6N07
• Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACMNA127, ACMNA132
• Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2M6N07
• NSW: MA3-RN-01, MA3-RN-02, MA3-RN-03, MA3-MR-01, MA3-MR-02, MA3-RQF-01, MA3-RQF-02, MA3-GM-02
• Western Australian Curriculum: ACMNA127, ACMNA132
• New Zealand Curriculum: NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-RN-6, NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-FM-2, NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-RN-1
• United Kingdom Curriculum: UK-UKS2-Y6-MATH-N-A, UK-UKS2-Y6-MATH-N-F, UK-UKS2-Y6-MATH-R, UK-KS3-MATH-N, UK-KS3-MATH-R
• Common Core: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.C, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.D, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.B.3, CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.B.2
• TEKS: TEKS-MATH-G6-5B, TEKS-MATH-G6-4G, TEKS-MATH-G6-4F, TEKS-MATH-G6-4B, TEKS-MATH-G6-1C, TEKS-MATH-G6-3B, TEKS-MATH-G6-4A, TEKS-MATH-G6-4C, TEKS-MATH-G6-4E
• Ontario: CAN-G6-MATH-B2.3, CAN-G6-MATH-B2.12, CAN-G6-MATH-B2.5, CAN-G6-MATH-F1.1

Product Details

• Year level: Year 6
• Subject: Mathematics
• Formats: PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX files
• Counts: 32-page unit plan, 21-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz
• Answers: 12 matching answer pages plus quiz answer/explanation slides

Digital product: No physical item is supplied. Purchase permits use by one teacher/classroom or one household. Files may not be redistributed, resold, posted publicly or shared outside the licensed setting.