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Personal Budget Task: Planning Your Money is a practical, engaging financial literacy resource that helps students learn how to manage money in a real-world way! Students take on the role of someone earning a monthly income, paying expenses, and making important choices about how to spend, save, and plan for the future. This no-prep activity goes beyond simple math practice by building critical thinking and decision-making skills. Students must create a balanced budget, justify their spending c

Students are given an empty field and the instructions to create their own theme park. They will create a variety of squares and rectangles based on given areas and perimeters that they cut out and decorate to fill in their theme park. This lets them show their understanding of area and perimeter, while also giving them some creative freedom for sizes and drawing and designing their rides and attractions. You can also begin with the practice pages on how to create a variety of rectangles using a

“Made to Order” is a quick and easy game to set up in which students use dice or a deck of cards to create whole numbers, addition or multiplication equations, and order those numbers from least to greatest. It is a challenge for students to decide which number should go in which place so that they don’t find themselves with any space for their newly created number. Included are instruction pages for a variety of ways to play the game, as well as multiple versions of the student game sheet.