Unit 2.4 · Budgeting Basics · 25–30 minutes
50 / 30 / 20
A first budget. Split $10, $20 and $50 into needs, wants, and save-and-give, then decide whether the rule fits your own life and what you would change.
3rd to 5th Grade · Free · With answers
8 free financial literacy worksheets for 3rd to 5th grade.
The arithmetic arrives: dividing to compare prices, splitting a budget, working out how many weeks a goal will take. Every sheet below is a real activity, unchanged, from our K–12 curriculum — one page, with an answer page behind it.
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Unit 2.2 · Smart Spending · 25–30 minutes
The Impulse Trap
Take one small thing you buy without planning, multiply it out across a year, and then try the 24-hour rule on something you wanted last month.
Unit 2.3 · The Saving System · 25–30 minutes
Set a SMART Goal
Turn “I want to save money” into a goal with a number and a date, then work out how many weeks it takes and when you will finish.
Unit 2.1 · The Earning Engine · 20–30 minutes
Sort the Earner
Eight people, eight ways of getting paid. Read each one and name the income type — wages, salary, profit, freelance, investment or passive.
Unit 2.5 · Money and Community · 25–30 minutes
The Four Players
Households, businesses, banks and government. Match five everyday events to the player behind each, then draw where a dollar actually goes.
Unit 2.4 · Budgeting Basics · 20–25 minutes
Fixed or Variable?
Six real costs. Sort each into fixed or variable, say whether you could actually change it, then pick the one you would cut.
Unit 2.3 · The Saving System · 20–25 minutes
What Is a Bank Account?
Five everyday jobs for money. For each one, decide whether it belongs in savings, in checking, or in cash.
Unit 2.2 · Smart Spending · 20–25 minutes
Unit Price Math
Four pairs of packages — markers, juice, pencils, glue sticks. Work out the price of one in each, then say which package is really cheaper.
Where these come from
A 266-lesson K–12 curriculum.
Each sheet is one activity from a Financial Foundations™ unit of 10 to 12 lessons, with teacher scripts, family letters and a checkpoint.