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Creating a Budget
Learning to create and maintain a budget is an important life skill. Guide individuals in the discovery of their spending habits and how to track them. They then use what they learned to create a budget and make decisions on where they...
California Department of Education
California CareerZone Make Money Choices Student Workbook
An activity challenges scholars to make smart money choices. While visiting the California CareerZone website, pupils choose between budgeting for one's lifestyle or salary and complete a two-page worksheet based on the information...
EduGAINs
Making Savvy Consumer Choices
It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a lesson that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a grocery...
Curated OER
Life on the Run: A Budget for Claudia and Jamie
In this budget worksheet, students create a budget for 2 girls that are trying to escape and use their allowances as the income they have. Students create a budget based on their income and expenses. They also answer 7 short answer...
Curated OER
Family Profile Record Sheet
In this math worksheet, students learn real world math applications for budgeting expenses in a simulated family. Students make a family profile with profession choice and monthly income. Students then fill out detailed budgets which...
Howard County Schools
Building a Playground
Scholars crave practical application. Let them use the different models of a quadratic function to plan the size and shape of a school playground. They convert between the different forms and maximize area.
Curated OER
Designing a Theme Park on a Budget
In this math worksheet, student use problem solving skills to plan and design a futuristic theme park on a budget. Students draw the park on graph paper and set prices for admission and budget for all ongoing costs. This page is from the...
Curated OER
Tower Building Challenge- Budgeting
In this tower building and budgeting worksheet, students attempt to meet the goal of building the tallest free standing structure on the smallest budget. They build the structures with straw, paper clips, and masking tape which all have...
Curated OER
Family Member
In this learning exercise on family members, students describe what is meant by family, their duty to family, and family meetings. In addition, they create a budget for their family for one month keeping track of all expenses for 7 days....
Federal Reserve Bank
Choices Are Everywhere: Why Can’t We Just Have It All?
Here is a resource covering a range of terms and concepts regarding scarcity, opportunity cost, and government debt in economics.
EngageNY
Ratios of Fractions and Their Unit Rates 2
Remodeling projects require more than just a good design — they involve complex fractions, too. To determine whether a tiling project will fit within a given budget pupils calculate the square footage to determine the number of...
Curated OER
Classroom Supplies
Challenge young mathematicians to buy classroom supplies by staying within the means of a $1,000 budget. The mathematical activity provides learners with the opportunity to decide what items from the supply list would benefit a class of...
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Goals
Do you have financial goals? How will you make them happen? Help your pupils answer these questions through this interactive project. They create goals and a plan for reaching them as one of many high school algebra projects.
American Consumer Credit Counseling
Money Mania
Become a money maniac with a fun set of worksheets about budgeting! Kids read about how to save, earn, budget, and borrow money, and fill out their own budget and expenses.
Federal Reserve Bank
Expense Tracking
Where does all your money go? Individuals keep a record of the money they spend over the course of 30 days. They then categorize where they are spending their money and write an essay detailing their findings.
Curated OER
Buying and Owning a Home: Monthly Budget Worksheet
In this personal finance worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer as they chart the 40 listed monthly expenses for 2 months.
Illustrative Mathematics
Chicken and Steak, Variation 2
Many organizations put on barbecues in order to make money. In a real-world math problem, the money allotted to purchase steak and chicken at this barbecue is only one hundred dollars. It is up to your potential chefs to figure out how...
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl
Cover two subjects with one lesson! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then, take...
Mathed Up!
Best Buys
Which scenario is the better deal? Class members examine nine scenarios to determine which choice offers a better deal. Pupils decide whether they need to find unit costs or total prices to compare the two options.
Curated OER
Real Life Challenge
In this consumer mathematics instructional activity, students use the newspaper to complete the sheet and figure out their budget for the next six months. They include parenting challenges and a new baby in their budget factors.
Curated OER
Shopping for Credit Exercise
In this personal budgeting worksheet, students compare 3 credit card offers and determine which would benefit them the most. Students respond to 6 short answer questions about the exercise.
Curated OER
Visual 1: The Cost of Credit
In this money management worksheet, students examine an advertisement for a bike and respond to 3 questions that require them to calculate percentages
Curated OER
Credit Inventory
In this money management learning exercise, learners read a paragraph regarding credit and then respond to 6 short answer questions regarding credit.
EngageNY
Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...