Engage your students with digital math activities for understanding actions to balance a budget!

This Google Classroom math pack includes seven low-prep differentiated activities that emphasize budgeting actions to take when expenses exceed income-- everything you need to help your students master the TEKS. 

The activities in this pack are designed to support mastery of math TEKS 5.10E: Describe actions that might be taken to balance a budget when expenses exceed income

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What activities are included?

• Practice A: Define budgeting terms.
• Practice B: Determine whether an action increases income or decreases expenses.
• Practice C: Determine the actions to take when expenses exceed income.
• Challenge A: Read a scenario and determine an action to help balance a budget.
• Challenge B: Read a scenario and create a list of actions to help balance a budget.
• Assessment A: Respond to a journal prompt.
• Assessment B: Complete an online quiz.

What’s unique about this pack?

This pack includes: 

• One-page review of the standard to help students review essential elements of the skill before beginning or to provide support while students work through the activities.
• Differentiated practice activities to engage students with interactive and moveable pieces. 
• Challenge tasks that increase the rigor of the standard and encourage critical thinking. 
• Journal writing prompt to improve communication skills and help students demonstrate mastery. 
• Online quiz to provide an opportunity to show mastery of the skill. 

This pack also includes a teacher guide with detailed instructions for using the activities with Google slides and/or Google Classroom, as well as, how to prepare the self-grading online quiz for use. Visual answer keys that can be used to compare to student responses are also included. 

Why go digital?

• Saves you tons of time and prep work!
• No copier or ink needed-- this is a paperless resource!
• It’s easy to implement and use with students.
• Great for independent work stations!
• Perfect for intervention, tutorials, and absent work too. 
• It’s a fun and engaging way to practice math skills!

I hope this product helps your Texas students master the TEKS!- The Routty Math Teacher

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