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Year level 3-4 Budgeting Economics and business Mathematics
Students organise their own birthday party. They decide between needs and wants, create a simple budget and learn about making wise financial decisions.
This digiactivity is intended as a student-directed activity with students working on computers, tablets or interactive whiteboards.
Curriculum alignment
Year 3
Learning area: Mathematics
Content descriptions
Strand: Number and Algebra
- Sub-strand: Number and place value
- Recognise and explain the connection between addition and subtraction (ACMNA054)
- Recall addition facts for single-digit numbers and related subtraction facts to develop increasingly efficient mental strategies for computation (ACMNA055)
- Recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and related division facts (ACMNA056)
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies (ACMNA057)
- Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
- Represent money values in multiple ways and count the change required for simple transactions to the nearest five cents (ACMNA059)
Learning area: English
Content descriptions
Strand: Language
- Sub-strand: Text structure and organisation
- Identify the features of online texts that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
Year 4
Learning area: Mathematics
Content descriptions
Strand: Number and Algebra
- Sub-strand: Number and place value
- Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts (ACMNA075)
- Develop efficient mental and written strategies, and use appropriate digital technologies for multiplication and for division where there is no remainder (ACMNA076)
- Sub-strand: Money and financial mathematics
- Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and without digital technologies (ACMNA080)
Learning area: English
Content descriptions
Strand: Language
- Sub-strand: Text structure and organisation
- Identify features of online texts that enhance readability including text, navigation, links, graphics and layout (ACELA1793)
General capabilities
Level 3: Typically, by the end of Year 4, students:
- Literacy:
- navigate, read and view different types of texts with illustrations and more detailed graphics
- Numeracy
- estimate a solution to a problem and then check the solution by recalling addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts
- the change from simple purchases
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- identify and apply appropriate reasoning and thinking strategies for particular outcomes