Discounts Year 6 Maths Unit

Teach discounts through a clear progression from percentage equivalence to practical financial problem-solving. This Year 6 mathematics unit helps students connect percentages with decimals and fractions, calculate discount amounts, distinguish discounts from final sale prices, compare competing offers, and solve multi-step shopping problems involving quantities, shipping and successive reductions.

The editable 24-slide presentation supplies explicit explanations, worked examples, guided practice and review. A 22-slide editable quiz uses 10 question-and-answer pairs across short-answer, true/false and multiple-choice formats. Colour classroom resources add collaborative practice, while six worksheet pages, two assessment pages, matching answers and a five-level rubric support independent work and evidence-based marking.

What's included

• Discounts editable presentation — 24 slides
• Discounts editable quiz — 22 slides with 10 questions and paired answers
• Discounts unit plan PDF — 25 pages
• Discounts at a Glance colour display — 1 page
• Discount Detective reference cards — 1 page
• Percent Match-Up Cards activity — 2 pages
• Bargain Basket Challenge — 3 pages: board, cards, recording sheet and teacher key
• Convert Percentages — 2 student worksheet pages plus 2 answer pages
• Calculating Discounts — 1 student worksheet plus answer page
• Finding Sale Prices — 1 student worksheet plus answer page
• Multi-Step Discount Problems — 1 student worksheet plus answer page
• Compare the Deals — 1 student worksheet plus answer page
• Discounts Check-In assessment — 2 student pages plus 2 answer pages
• Discounts Year 6 Rubric — 1 A4 landscape page with five performance levels
• Combined Preview PDF — 71 pages

Learning focus

• Equivalent percentages, decimals and fractions
• Percentage discounts and sale prices
• Benchmark and non-benchmark percentage calculations
• Quantity, shipping and successive-reduction problems
• Comparing offers and justifying the better deal
• Error analysis and mathematical explanation

Classroom use

Use the presentation for whole-class instruction, the reference and activity cards for guided groups, the Bargain Basket Challenge for collaborative practice, the worksheets for support/core/extension practice, and the assessment and rubric for end-of-unit evidence. The sequence is designed for approximately one school week or 5 lessons and can be adjusted for revision or extension.

Counts and answers

Unit plan: 25 pages.

Presentation: 24 slides.

Quiz: 22 slides.

Combined Preview: 71 pages.

Answer status: answer pages are included for all meaningful worksheets and both assessment pages; quiz answers are paired with each question; the game includes a teacher key.

Teacher benefits

• A complete teaching sequence with worked examples and guided practice
• Multiple resource modes for whole-class, group and independent learning
• Differentiated progression from conversion fluency to multi-step reasoning
• Matching answers and rubric support efficient review and assessment
• Editable presentation and quiz files for classroom adaptation

Digital product and licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Files are licensed for the purchaser's own classroom use and may not be redistributed, shared, resold or uploaded to another platform.