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Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math
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"My experience with this materials was awesome, My students were engage and love the daily work and Math presentation that arrived from this."
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Project based learning for 6th grade math skills is awesome! Teach your students math skills and financial literacy through this project-based learning activity. Your students will practice decimal operations (money), work with percentages, and create scatter plots. Challenge activities allow for it to be used in 6th grade as well. It includes a teacher guide walking you through each step.

Your students will get their first peek at the process of creating a budget! Kids love having choices, and this project gives them the choices they want! Throughout this project, they get to choose their career, car, and house. Their choices may be limited depending on the salary they get with their career. During this structured PBL, kids will practice percentages and decimal operations (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction), along with using critical thinking skills.

This is the 6th grade version of my BEST SELLING Project-Based Learning activity! Teach your students real life math skills using this high-interest PBL, while applying the Common Core (Or Other State) Standards they've learned! Your students will begin thinking about what career path they want to take, and will look at real life data on average salary, housing, food, and transportation costs. Supplementary articles on personal finance and functional text may be brought into this lesson to connect with Reading standards.

All of my PBLs include e-mail support. Check the feedback below to see what it's all about!

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Project Based Learning: Create a Personal Budget 6th Grade Math

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What others say

"My experience with this materials was awesome, My students were engage and love the daily work and Math presentation that arrived from this."
star
Pauline A B.

Description

Project based learning for 6th grade math skills is awesome! Teach your students math skills and financial literacy through this project-based learning activity. Your students will practice decimal operations (money), work with percentages, and create scatter plots. Challenge activities allow for it to be used in 6th grade as well. It includes a teacher guide walking you through each step.

Your students will get their first peek at the process of creating a budget! Kids love having choices, and this project gives them the choices they want! Throughout this project, they get to choose their career, car, and house. Their choices may be limited depending on the salary they get with their career. During this structured PBL, kids will practice percentages and decimal operations (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction), along with using critical thinking skills.

This is the 6th grade version of my BEST SELLING Project-Based Learning activity! Teach your students real life math skills using this high-interest PBL, while applying the Common Core (Or Other State) Standards they've learned! Your students will begin thinking about what career path they want to take, and will look at real life data on average salary, housing, food, and transportation costs. Supplementary articles on personal finance and functional text may be brought into this lesson to connect with Reading standards.

All of my PBLs include e-mail support. Check the feedback below to see what it's all about!

***************************************************************************

Other Project-based Learning Activities

Click here to see other 6th grade PBLs

Find the 5th grade version of this project

Need help implementing PBL or just want to join other PBL-lovers? Get every grade 3-6 project-based learning in my store (including future ones) and access to a private Facebook support group.

→ → → Join the Project-based Learning Club here!

Want to learn more about how to plan and implement project based learning? Take the online training course for comprehensive training videos and resources for the entire process!

→ → → Take the Project Based Learning Training Course!

***************************************************************************

Customer Tips:

How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:

• Please go to your My Purchases page after you log in. Beside each purchase see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you.

Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and products:

• Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower.

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Report this resource to TPT
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Great project
Rated 5 out of 5
November 25, 2025
This was great for my 6th graders. They enjoyed it!
Jess Kriegner
(TPT Seller)
172 reviews • New Jersey
Grades taught: 6th
Well designed project
Rated 5 out of 5
August 4, 2025
Met expectations
Great value
Standards-aligned
Ued as an end of the year math project to review skills taught throughout the year.
Ina T.
212 reviews • Alabama
Grades taught: 2nd, 5th
Rated 5 out of 5
July 23, 2025
My experience with this materials was awesome, My students were engage and love the daily work and Math presentation that arrived from this.
Pauline A B.
7 reviews
Grades taught: 5th, 6th
Rated 5 out of 5
July 22, 2025
We had so much fun with this! I used it with a Game of Life project we did in class. The kids had so much fun with each lesson. One student during the "Taxes" lesson looked up and said, :Do we have to do this when we get older?" and was shocked, yet also proud that she had figured hers out. Also shocked and what she had to give away! So engaging throughout and so much fun!
Jill E.
363 reviews
Grades taught: 6th, 7th
Rated 5 out of 5
June 3, 2025
My students loved this project. Very engaging and started conversations about real world math!
Laura S.
154 reviews
Grades taught: 6th
Rated 5 out of 5
February 24, 2025
I used this for my grade 9/10 essential math class as their final project. Much of the curriculum focuses on practical ways students will use math in everyday life, so this was a fantastic way for students to apply their knowledge. I think it was the perfect difficulty level for my grade 9/10 students with mild/moderate learning disabilities.
A DiLorenzo
(TPT Seller)
71 reviews
Grades taught: 9th, 10th
Student populations: Autism, Learning difficulties
Rated 5 out of 5
November 17, 2024
This was a great independent project for my early finishers. Thank you!
Heather P.
289 reviews
Grades taught: 6th
Rated 5 out of 5
November 16, 2024
My accelerated 6th graders loved this. They never realized how much money goes towards taxes.
Sarah Hartman
(TPT Seller)
248 reviews
Grades taught: 6th

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by:
Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from statements about order. For example, recognize that an account balance less than -30 dollars represents a debt greater than 30 dollars.
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