Description
Years: 10 – 12
Financial Mathematics Problem Solving can be used for:
- Assessment: As a formal task to evaluate student understanding.
- Revision: For targeted practice and review.
- As Exam Question
The marking scheme is editable. Feel free to adjust it to your preferred criteria or school requirements.
Focus Area: Reducing Balance Loans (Loan Repayments)
To assess students’ understanding of reducing balance loan calculations, include:
- Determining the time required to repay a loan based on the interest rate and fixed repayment amount.
- Calculating the monthly repayment needed to pay off a loan within a specified time frame.
Skill Development:
- Applying algebraic techniques to solve financial problems.
- Using geometric progressions to model loan repayments.
- Rounding money to the nearest cent.
- Converting interest rates and time periods between different formats.
Learning Outcomes:
- Use a recurrence relation to model a reducing balance loan and investigate the effect of the interest rate and repayment amount on the time taken to repay the loan.
- Solve problems involving reducing balance loans; for example, determining the monthly repayments required to pay off a loan.
Also comply with Australian Curriculum:
Use a recurrence relation to model a reducing balance loan and investigate (numerically or graphically) the effect of the interest rate and repayment amount on the time taken to repay the loan (ACMGM097)
With the aid of a financial calculator or computer-based financial software, solve problems involving reducing balance loans; for example, determining the monthly repayments required to pay off a housing loan. (ACMGM098)
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