# Learner choice cards · one integrated inquiry each day

Read or hear the matching [source pair](SOURCE-CARDS.md). 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](interactive/whole-set-lab.html) or its [paper route](interactive/TEXT-ROUTE.md) 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](STUDENT-CHECKS.md); its [worked key](teacher/KEY-AND-NEXT.md) is public, so the check is not a secure exam.

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