Learner cards · choose… | Year 11 Inquiry · T1 W5–6 · Learner prompts

Read or hear the matching fictional public text and desk note. Every A/B/C choice produces the same three-part response: (1) identify maker, audience and one exact foregrounding, crop or wording choice; (2) show the arithmetic with its units and correct rate/base/direction; (3) give a useful revised public line and an unknown. These are switchable access and exploration routes, not fixed learning-style labels. Use paper, calculator, large print, Braille, labelled tactile pieces, sign, AAC, typing or a directed scribe. Say what support you used; a read-aloud does not by itself demonstrate independent reading. You will never be asked for a real payslip, family finances, current exchange quote, share ownership, disability, identity or public recording.

Day 21 · Clockwork Museum

A · Caption and ledger: Cross out the claim that late hours built the whole display; itemise 7 regular hours, 2 additional hours and the once-only allowance before drafting a new caption.
B · Three pay layers: Build labelled REGULAR, ADDITIONAL and ONCE cards; direct a partner to place them under the cropped-hand description, then explain what the crop cannot identify.
C · Reader's voice note: Privately dictate the three gross-pay layers, calculate the $275 model total and record a correction for fictional newsletter readers with one authorship unknown.

Optional extra / paper home: What if the additional-hours multiplier were an invented 1.25 instead? Change that layer only and keep all real pay-rule claims out.

Day 22 · Gym equipment index

A · Error audit: Show the wrong sum that counts $10 three times, correct it with the note's one shift unit, then rewrite the staff card.
B · Hour-band strip: Place four regular-hour tokens, three extra-hour tokens and a single allowance token; attach the rate to the relevant band and explain why the drawing is not a pay rule.
C · Adult-applicant script: Ask how often the allowance applies, compute the model answer and dictate an accurate shift summary without claiming take-home pay.

Optional extra / paper home: Try one invented additional hour rather than three; the allowance still appears once. No real worker information is needed.

Day 23 · Cycling clue badges

A · Catalogue editor: Annotate the $56 cost and $70 sale with the $14 gap, then label 25% mark-up on cost and 20% gross margin on sale in a replacement line.
B · Base bars: Make one 56-unit COST bar and one 70-unit SALE bar; place the same 14-unit gap against each full bar and explain the changed percentage denominator.
C · Publisher dialogue: In a private script, ask what quarter of each sale means; show why $14 is a fifth of $70, not a quarter, and name expenses still unknown.

Optional extra / paper home: If a fictional second badge costs $28 and sells for $35, compare the two percentages without saying anything about real profit.

Day 24 · Quiet-space paper panels

A · Two-base receipt: Show $96 → $120 → $96 with $24 on each arrow, then write the percentage under its own starting amount and edit cancel.
B · Change ladder: Arrange BASE 1 $96, HIGH $120 and RETURN $96 cards; use the A4 ladder or text route to explain the different 25% and 20% steps.
C · Predict/test/explain: Predict whether another 25% decrease works, then use the offline base lab or paper equivalent; publish a cautious correction.

Optional extra / paper home: Test a rise from $40 to $50 and find the decrease needed to return. No actual price search is required.

Day 25 · Tabletop maker fair

A · Supporter note: Annotate every dollar and the cropped hands; show $320 receipts, $270 stated costs and $50 remainder before rewriting the summary.
B · Cost pockets: Put 40 $8 receipts in a GROSS pocket and $125, $45, $100 in three COST pockets; name what the imagined crop omits and keep the allocation unknown.
C · Editor interview: Privately ask the organiser where the remainder went, answer “the source does not say”, and dictate a supported line for supporters with the arithmetic.

Optional extra / paper home: Add an invented $20 cost and recalculate a new what-if remainder; do not portray it as an actual expense.

Day 26 · Mobile science-display board

A · Crop annotation: Describe what the $48 image includes and excludes; show $60 → $48 → $60 with 20% down and 25% up.
B · Proportional strips: Remove a $12 strip from $60, then compare that same $12 with the new $48 base; label why the return percentage is bigger.
C · Fact-check script: Predict a 20% increase on $48, compute $57.60, then dictate a correction that does not call the fictional image a real observation.

Optional extra / paper home: Try a $100 starting value with a 10% cut, then calculate the exact percentage rise needed to return, to a sensible decimal place.

Day 27 · Animation sound-cue licence

A · Brochure markup: Draw AUD→USD and USD→AUD arrows and place $168 USD and $120 AUD beside the correct givens before rewriting the brochure.
B · Currency tiles: Move 240 AUD-labelled tokens through groups of 0.70 USD per AUD; reverse-check 84 USD by locating the AUD amount that produces it. Keep symbols on every card.
C · Two-reader explanation: Privately explain to fictional AUD and USD readers why matching typography is not matching value, then give both model conversions and a no-real-quote limit.

Optional extra / paper home: Choose a different invented rate, such as 0.50 USD per AUD, for a what-if; never present it as a live quote or conversion instruction.

Day 28 · Kite Ledger flyer

A · Flyer correction: Identify forever and promise, then calculate $0.90/share × 40 and $0.90 ÷ $30 ×100% for one stipulated year.
B · Share stacks: Make forty cards labelled ONE SHARE, each with model $0.90 one-year dividend, and one $30/share price card; distinguish portfolio dollars from per-share yield.
C · Cautious explainer: Dictate an imagined reader's question about next year, answer “unknown”, then privately record the one-year $36/3% calculation and a safer sentence.

Optional extra / paper home: Suppose the fictional dividend were $0.60/share in a different year; recalculate the model yield while saying the new value is invented.

Day 29 · Tinpath and Hearthtile

A · Chart editor: Put $3 EPS beneath Tinpath's $36 bar and $4 EPS beneath Hearthtile's $48 bar; calculate both P/E ratios and revise better value.
B · Ratio cards: Group 36 price units in sets of 3 earnings units and 48 in sets of 4; both form 12, then name one factor the bars never showed.
C · Magazine response: Privately dictate a note to the fictional editor: the lower nominal share price is visible, both model P/E ratios match, and no investment rank follows.

Optional extra / paper home: Invent a third company with a different price/EPS pair but the same P/E 12; do not use a real company.

Day 30 · Soundwheel Papers

A · Two-panel infographic: In one panel compute P/E 20÷2=10; in another compute dividend yield 0.60÷20×100=3%. Caption the two units separately.
B · Measure tokens: Use labelled PRICE, EARNINGS and DIVIDEND cards; build the two quotients on separate rows and explain why the ten-segment ring conflates them.
C · Reader correction: In a private spoken/AAC script, name the editor's ten is ten shortcut, give ratio 10 and one-year yield 3%, and reject future-cash inference.

Optional extra / paper home: Change the fictional dividend to $0.40/share while leaving price and earnings unchanged; note which measure changes. The new-case Check B and public key are available by URL, so the check is formative, not a secure exam.