Year 1 Maths Unit Plan: Market Maths (Unit 3)
Bring your classroom to life with the bustling energy of a marketplace with our "Unit 3: Market Maths" for Year 1! This is the third of four comprehensive units that together cover all mandatory content descriptors for the Year 1 Australian Mathematics Curriculum (Version 9.0).
We know how busy educators are, which is why this complete 9-week unit is designed to be high-quality, engaging, and ready to use. Guide your students to build a strong foundation in number sense, financial literacy, and data analysis in the hands-on, real-world context of running their very own class market stall.
What's Inside?
9 Weeks of Engaging, Real-World Lessons: Give your students a meaningful purpose for applying their maths skills. Each week builds upon the last:
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Week 1: Setting Up Shop (Quantifying collections)
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Week 2: Money, Money, Money! (Recognising Australian coins)
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Week 3: The Price Is Right (Addition problems)
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Week 4: Giving Change (Subtraction problems)
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Week 5: Market Day Modelling (Applying all skills)
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Week 6: Sharing the Profits (Equal sharing)
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Week 7: Stocktake Time! (Equal grouping)
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Week 8: What's Our Bestseller? (Acquiring data)
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Week 9: Market Data Detectives (Representing data)
Hands-on, Play-Based Activities: Make financial and data concepts memorable and impactful with interactive role-playing activities. Imagine students becoming "Shopkeepers and Customers," running a vibrant "Class Market Day," and acting as "Data Detectives" to discover their bestselling item.
Complete Assessment Package: Effortlessly monitor progress with naturally embedded formative assessment opportunities. A full summative assessment task, "Market Data Detectives," is included, complete with a detailed marking rubric.
Full Differentiation: Cater to all learners in your classroom with thoughtfully designed support, challenge, and extension tasks included in every weekly plan.
This unit ensures your students experience the satisfaction of handling money responsibly, the logic of adding and subtracting to complete a sale, and the power of using a graph to make a business decision.
