Three real-life budgeting tasks for Years 5–6, each with its own teacher slides, student booklet and savings goal. Use them across a financial maths unit, or give different groups a different task.

What's in the bundle

• Grocery Shopping Budget: plan 3 days of meals for a family of 3 on $150 and save $10
• School Canteen Budget: plan a week of canteen lunches on $30 and save $3
• Trip to the Cinema: plan a class excursion for 25 students on $800 and save $25

Every task follows the same routine, so students know what to do: read the task, follow a worked example, plan, check, graph the results, and crack a detective case file.

Maths covered

• Adding, subtracting and multiplying money, and working out change
• Making and reading many-to-one column graphs, and spotting misleading graphs
• NSW Mathematics K–10 syllabus: MA3-AR-01, MA3-MR-01, MA3-DATA-01, MA3-DATA-02

Good to know

• About 6–8 lessons in total
• Print in colour or in black and white
• Edit the slides in Google Slides or PowerPoint, and the booklets in PowerPoint or Keynote (fonts included)
• The Grocery Shopping Budget is also free on its own, so the bundle saves $2 on the two paid tasks