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Calculating Discounts PowerPoint

In Mathematics Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Money

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21 pages (PowerPoint)|This resource is suitable for Grades: 5 - 6

A 21-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching discounts to your students.

This teaching presentation has been designed to teach your students how to calculate simple discounts (10%, 25%, 50%) by converting the discount to either a fraction or a decimal. It covers the following content:

an introduction to discounts, including some everyday examples of when discounts may be applied
an explanation of how to calculate discounts by converting the discount rate to a fraction
an explanation of how to calculate discounts by converting the discount rate to a decimal
an explanation of how to calculate sale price by subtracting the discount
example questions to be completed as a class
review questions for students to complete independently.

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Common Core State Standards alignment

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.C
In Grade 6 Standards for Mathematical Practice Ratios & Proportional Relationships Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent....

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