Stop scrambling for meaningful money-math practice—give students a real-world budgeting mission that builds decimal fluency and critical thinking. Picture your students hunched over a ledger, justifying their spending choices while practicing precise addition and subtraction with money. You know the feeling: you want a short, purposeful activity that practices decimals, budgeting, and proofreading, but everything out there is either too dry or too long. You need a lesson that fits into one cla