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In this activity, students investigate the effect it would have on families if the GST rate was increased and the GST base was broadened to include all goods. It provides an opportunity for students to use mathematical modelling to solve practical and real-world problems involving percentages.

This set of resources provides opportunities for students to solve problems involving percentages, rates and proportions using technology (spreadsheets) in the context of income tax. It provides an opportunity for students to use mathematical modelling to solve practical and real-world problems involving percentage increases and decreases.

This set of resources provides opportunities for students to solve problems involving percentages, rates and proportions using technology (spreadsheets) in the context of income tax.

This set of resources provides opportunities for students to solve problems involving percentages, rates and proportions using technology (spreadsheets) in the context of the goods and services tax GST). 

In this activity, students learn how to calculate their net worth, which assets and liabilities to include, and why it’s important to know how much their net worth is. In doing so, they learn about the addition and subtraction of integers, the management of personal finances, and representations of large numbers.

This set of resources provides opportunities for students to use and extend their data display and analysis skills. They will use technology (spreadsheets) to assist in their calculations and graphing of data and investigate the relationship between data and the mean and median in the context of taxable income.

In this activity, students are introduced to the Pay as you Go withholding system and the tools they can use to find out how much tax should be withheld from their pay and how they can check that the right amount was withheld. They consider what they can do if their employer is not deducting the correct amount of tax.

Students analyse a range of primary and secondary sources related to the home front during World War II, including sources that tell of the cost of war on individuals and the community. For each source, they identify the intended purpose and audience, the creator’s perspectives, values and motives and evaluate its usefulness and reliability.