Salary, tax and wages maths unit

Outstanding teaching resource for teaching year 6 children about salary, tax and wages.

Includes teaching slides for four high quality lessons.

Lesson 1: Defining salary, tax and wages
Gives visual representations for net and gross salary

Lesson 2: Calculating wages based on hourly rates

Lesson 3: Calculating tax deductions from salary

Lesson 4: Calculating net pay

Throughout each lesson their is ping pong slides for “I do, you do”

The lessons include sentence stems and steps to calculating net pay and tax deductions.

Small steps with differentiated questions.

The purple questions are the easier questions and each slide progresses in difficulty.

Visual representations for the difference between net and gross salary.

This unit allows children to practice their calculator skills ready for year 7.

This is also an appropriate resource for Key stage 3 and year 5 depending on the ability of the children.