Lesson Plan

• Calculate percentages, discounts, profit, loss and apply them to real‑world price problems.
• Convert between units of time and use 12‑hour/24‑hour formats accurately.
• Solve speed‑distance‑time travel problems and interpret timetables.
• Apply simple and compound interest formulas to financial scenarios.
• Perform currency conversions and create basic budgets.

• Projector or interactive whiteboard
• Printed worksheets with practice questions
• Calculator (or classroom calculator app)
• Currency conversion tables / cards
• Stopwatch or timer for speed‑time activities
• Graph paper or spreadsheet template for interest calculations

Begin with a quick real‑life scenario: a student planning a weekend trip and budgeting for tickets, meals, and transport.

Review prior knowledge of percentages and unit conversions, linking them to everyday decisions.

Explain that by the end of the lesson they will be able to solve money, time, travel and finance problems confidently.

1. Do‑now (5'): Students calculate a 20% discount on a jacket and share the answer (checks prior knowledge).
2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Review percentage, profit/loss formulas and introduce currency conversion tables.
3. Guided practice (12'): Worksheet on money problems – discount, profit, loss, and currency conversion.
4. Time conversion activity (8'): Pairs use a conversion wheel to change between seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks.
5. Travel problem stations (12'): Solve speed‑distance‑time questions and read timetable tables.
6. Finance focus (10'): Demonstrate simple and compound interest calculations; students compute interest on given principals.
7. Exit ticket (5'): Each student solves one real‑world problem from any section independently.

Summarise how the same mathematical relationships underpin money, time, travel and finance tasks.

Students complete an exit ticket that asks them to apply a formula from the lesson.

Assign homework: a set of mixed real‑world problems to reinforce today’s concepts.