Working Out a Discount

Content Name

Working Out a Discount

Content Type

Partner Content

Description

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.

Curriculum

• 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

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