Dazzling Discounts — Year 6 Maths Unit
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Description
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. It covers discount vocabulary, useful equivalent forms and benchmarks, decimal multiplication, fraction methods, calculating final sale prices, comparing percentage and fixed-dollar offers, budgeting and reasonableness checks.
The unit plan PDF extends the teaching through two strategy posters, a printable Roll a Sale game, Bargain Battle task cards, support/core/extension worksheet practice, a sale catalogue and $250 budget challenge, a two-page assessment, matching answer pages and a six-criteria rubric. The 22-slide editable quiz contains 10 questions with a matching answer and explanation slide after each question.
What’s Included
Dazzling Discounts editable presentation — 21 slides
Dazzling Discounts editable quiz — 22 slides
Dazzling Discounts unit plan PDF — 32 pages
Decimal Method and Benchmark Method strategy posters — 2 pages
Roll a Sale game — instructions, price die, discount die and recording sheet — 4 pages
Bargain Battle Task Cards — 2 student pages and 2 matching answer pages
Equivalent Forms Warm-Up — 1 student page and 1 matching answer page
Finding the Discount: Benchmark Method and Decimal Method — 2 student pages and 2 matching answer pages
New Sale Prices: Core Practice and Extension — 2 student pages and 2 matching answer pages
Compare the Bargains — 1 student page and 1 matching answer page
Budget Challenge: Sale Catalogue and Plan Your Purchase — 2 student pages and 2 matching answer pages
Dazzling Discounts Assessment — 2 student pages and 2 matching answer pages
Dazzling Discounts Rubric — 1 page
Combined preview PDF — 75 pages
What’s Included
Presentation: Dazzling Discounts
Strategy Posters: Dazzling Discounts
Game: Roll a Sale
Activity: Bargain Battle Task Cards
Worksheet: Equivalent Forms Warm-Up
Worksheet: Finding the Discount
Worksheet: New Sale Prices
Worksheet: Compare the Bargains
Activity: Budget Challenge
Quiz: Dazzling Discounts
Assessment: Dazzling Discounts Assessment
Rubric: Dazzling Discounts Rubric
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 is suitable for approximately five lessons or one teaching week.
Year, Subject and Topic
Year level: Year 6
Subject: Mathematics
Topic: Percentage discounts, sale prices, equivalent forms, comparing offers and budgeting
Curriculum Alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0
AC9M6N07
Australian Curriculum v8.4
ACMNA127, ACMNA132
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2M6N07
NSW Curriculum
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
Common Core State Standards
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
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
New Zealand Curriculum
NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-RN-6, NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-FM-2, NZ-Y6-MATH-NUM-RN-1
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
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 Curriculum
CAN-G6-MATH-B2.3, CAN-G6-MATH-B2.12, CAN-G6-MATH-B2.5, CAN-G6-MATH-F1.1
Formats, Page Count and Answers
Formats: PDF and editable PowerPoint PPTX
Unit plan: 32 pages
Presentation: 21 slides
Quiz: 22 slides
Combined preview: 75 pages
Answer status: 12 matching answer pages plus quiz answer/explanation slides
Teacher Benefits
Moves from explicit modelling to guided and independent application.
Provides three calculation approaches so students can select an efficient strategy.
Includes practical shopping and budgeting contexts without requiring extra preparation.
Supplies matching answer pages and quiz explanations for efficient checking.
Includes core and extension practice, assessment and a marking rubric in one unit.
Digital Product and Licence
This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped. The purchase is licensed for use by one teacher/classroom or one household. Please do not redistribute, resell, post publicly or share the files outside the licensed setting.
