# Year 5 · Weeks 3–4 · the fair decision desk

**Australian Curriculum v9 teaching draft · 29 September 2026.** Ten additional [35-minute project blocks](TEACHER-SEQUENCE.md) let learners make and defend a bounded decision for a *fictional* paper-card event. They read two [original source cards](ORIGINAL-SOURCES.md), estimate and calculate products, compare a fixed 900-card limit, consider another viewpoint, and create a short visitor-facing recommendation. Book swaps, games, garden models and miniature museums give different life contexts without asking a child to disclose their own life.

**Use tomorrow:** Keep the existing [English](../../../english/term-1/weeks-03-04/README.md) and [mathematics](../../../mathematics/term-1/weeks-03-04/README.md) 25-minute lessons. This project follows them where the timetable allows. On Days 15 and 20, run the subject packs' fresh checks *before* this guided application. Read the [source cards](ORIGINAL-SOURCES.md), then the day's [teacher sequence](TEACHER-SEQUENCE.md). Give out only that day's [clean learner card](LEARNER-CARDS.md), a blank [A4 decision mat](print/decision-mat.pdf) or [editable SVG](print/decision-mat.svg), and broad paper counters if useful. A [full text/tactile version](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md) is provided. The [teacher key](TEACHER-KEY.md) stays with staff.

Save each learner's first estimate, chosen operation, exact method, supported claim, unexplored question and revision separately. A learner can speak, sign, point, use AAC, type, write or direct an adult's card movement; record the actual support. A read-aloud can establish comprehension of the source but does not prove independent print reading. An answer copied from a partner is useful teaching information, not independent evidence. A voluntary visitor test may be a peer, private adult or explicitly labelled teacher role-play. No public performance, photography, account, purchase, real travel, real family financial detail or student data upload is required.

The [exact source-row crosswalk](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md) proposes **partial** Year 5 English and mathematics links. The [source/rights ledger](SOURCES-AND-REVIEW.md), [three-role author desk run](RUN-THROUGH.md), [hash manifest](MANIFEST.sha256) and [pack check](verify_pack.py) make the authored draft inspectable. No state or territory approval, classroom pilot, translation certification, First Nations language authority, learning-impact claim or achievement judgment follows from this pack. Science, HASS, HPE, Technologies, Arts and Languages need their own teaching; this project does not replace them.

Original lesson scripts, fictional data, cards and vector artwork © NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd 2026, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): credit “SubjectNest by NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd”, link source and licence, and note changes. ACARA content descriptions and embedded PDF DejaVu font retain [separate terms](SOURCES-AND-REVIEW.md). Verification code is Apache-2.0.