Your child picks a fun day out, gets a real budget, and has to make it work. They choose what to spend on, research prices, handle a surprise cost, build a schedule, and pitch the whole plan to you. Real budgeting with real trade-offs, not a worksheet with pretend numbers.
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Ages 8–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels
Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
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By the time a kid budgets, shops, and cooks a real meal, they have practiced more applied math than a textbook chapter — and they did it with you. That is the moment "I taught my kid something real" starts to feel possible.
