Budget Task Cards Personal Finance Budgeting Activity

Students determine if people are spending within or outside of their budgets in this personal finance activity that builds financial literacy. Students work with net monthly incomes and monthly spending guideline percentages to calculate if spending is too much or too little and what should be spent in the various budget categories.

Students are asked to give advice on where a person could save more money and analyze grocery lists, gas payments, monthly expenditures, paycheck deductions and work with percentages.

Sometimes net monthly incomes are given, other times students need to find net monthly incomes based on the information in the problems.

What's included: 10 task cards (each with multiple questions), a student answer sheet and an answer key. The activity comes as both a printable PDF and digital in Google Forms.