Learner choice cards… | Year 11 Inquiry · T1 W3–4 · Learner prompts

Read or hear the matching source pair. Choose one A/B/C route; switch during the task if useful. These are not fixed learning-style labels. Every route must hand in the same three things: (1) name the public text's maker, audience and an exact word or phrase that shapes a claim; (2) show a correct calculation with its unit, base and period where relevant; (3) revise the public line with a condition and one unknown. Writing, Braille, tactile symbols, drawing, sign, AAC, private speech or directed scribing can carry your reasoning. Record whether a source was read independently, read aloud or supported; a read-aloud alone does not demonstrate independent reading. You never have to give personal financial or work information, buy anything, join a public discussion or make a recording.

Day 11 · Planetarium cards

A · Two-audience editor: Make two tiny notices—one for 20 cards, one for 40—with whole-set arithmetic and a crossed-out any.
B · Bundle floor: Place labelled 25- and 50-card rectangles beside “need 20” and “need 40”; write or dictate the outlay under each before choosing a headline.
C · Predict and test: Predict first, then use the offline whole-set lab or its paper route for both needs; explain why unit price alone misled the editor.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Invent a need of 75 cards and test only the stated set-price model; ask whether mixed bundles or delivery could change the result. Do not look up a real price.

Day 12 · Archive guide pay line

A · Mark the draft: Annotate steady, in your pocket, gross, annual, and weekly; show the division before drafting a new two-line recruitment note.
B · Period strip: Put one $58,240 gross/year card over 52 identical week boxes; move to $1,120 gross/week without moving “tax unknown” into the answer.
C · Adult-applicant script: Dictate or sign the question an applicant would ask, explain the 52-week model aloud or via AAC, and produce an accurate spoken-script headline.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: State what a 26-fortnight model would calculate, then explain why it still cannot give take-home pay. Keep all personal wages out.

Day 13 · Route-clue cards

A · Rule comparison: Write A and B as rules in q, substitute 40 and 60, and give the organiser one quantity-specific line for each.
B · Base-and-card tiles: Lay a $12 fixed tile before forty or sixty $0.40 tiles; compare with the same number of $0.65 tiles. A calculator may replace repetitive adding; retain the rule.
C · Two-case debate: Read the handout's question mark as an invitation to agree, then argue for B at 40 and A at 60 with figures and one printing-only caveat.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Sketch a table for 0, 20, 40, 60 cards and look for a switch; the exact crossing point is a stretch, not required evidence.

Day 14 · Mini-garden workshop

A · Invitation edit: Underline whole and draft a welcoming replacement that distinguishes $150 available before from $70 after the proposed materials.
B · Three-pocket budget: Place labelled $140 and $90 in FIXED, $80 in PROPOSED, and the uncommitted balance in REMAINS; explain who the original line invites and what it hides.
C · Committee voice note: Give a private spoken/AAC 20-second model update with both balances, then dictate an accurate invitation that still asks for ideas.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Suggest a fictional $60 materials option and recompute the balance; it is not a real purchase request.

Day 15 · Science-exhibit reserve

A · Unit-and-word audit: Put a box around every month, write P × i × n with units, then replace both that phrase and any upgrade.
B · Two-year timeline: Lay two annual interest cards of $36 beside the unchanged $1,200 principal card; label the $1,272 model total and explain why compounding is not shown.
C · Treasurer correction: Direct a partner to read the two source voices exactly, then dictate or sign an evidence-backed correction with $72 interest and the missing affordability information.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Ask what an equipment quote would have to show before anyone could claim affordability. Do not search for or recommend a real financial product.

Day 16 · Recipe-card archive

A · Receipt editor: Draw two itemised receipts—$120 − 15% and $99 + $8—then rewrite clearly for a club reader.
B · Price strips: Move $18 discount off A's $120 strip and add an $8 setup tile to B's $99 strip; keep delivery and quality in UNKNOWN, not in the totals.
C · Decision interview: Ask an imagined editor which known total is lower, answer with the $5 gap, then supply a cautious new comparison aloud, in text or via AAC.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Suppose both options have the same invented $4 delivery fee; find whether the known gap changes, then say why real delivery is still unknown.

Day 17 · Costume-sleeve packing

A · Unit labels: Calculate $24/hour × 4 hours and $11/accepted sleeve × 8 accepted; annotate better with “in this model and shift only”.
B · Accepted-count rack: Put eight accepted-sleeve tokens under P and four hour blocks under H; compare stated gross totals without pretending rejected pieces or employment rules are known.
C · Recruitment revision: Role-play a fictional adult applicant's question in a private script, give the $8 model difference and write a corrected one-shift line.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Try seven accepted sleeves under P, then identify which assumption changed. This is not advice about an actual job.

Day 18 · Sports-scoreboard parts

A · Catalogue markup: Draw a line through final, write 10% × $75 = $7.50, and compare A's $82.50 with B's $86 including the assumed taxable status.
B · Exclusive/inclusive tiles: Build A from $75 plus $7.50 GST; put B's supplied $86 GST-inclusive on one tile. Explain the $3.50 stated gap and place delivery in UNKNOWN.
C · Coach's voice note: Predict which part seems cheaper, then privately narrate how the source's tax labels change the comparison; dictate an accurate catalogue line.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Reverse-check A: $82.50 ÷ 11 = $7.50 GST for a fully taxable GST-inclusive price. Do not classify a real product.

Day 19 · Podcast paper-planning fund

A · Four-row table: Record income, fixed, discretionary and remainder for each of four model weeks; rewrite forever as a conditional four-week statement.
B · Four week stacks: Make four identical groups of $210, $120, $55 labelled tokens, one stack per week; count $35 left in each and explain what has not been observed.
C · Planning bulletin: Dictate or type a short bulletin to fictional club members with the $140 four-week model balance and one concrete recheck question.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Change only the week-four allocation to an invented $190 and recompute that week's balance. Say what would need checking before an actual plan.

Day 20 · Printmaking poster

A · Two-stage receipt: Show cost $40, marked $50, discounted $45; circle each percentage's different base and replace cancel.
B · Proportional bars: Draw or arrange a $40 bar, add a $10 quarter-of-cost piece, then remove a $5 tenth-of-marked-price piece; label the two bases.
C · Tutor's correction: Privately explain to an imagined maker why the sign's simple wording invites a false shortcut, then give a two-sentence correction with $45 and the no-other-charge limit.

Optional extra / no-purchase home: Reverse the order as a different model and compare; do not say the original source did this. After class, your teacher may give fresh Check B; its worked key is public, so the check is not a secure exam.