Budget Boss Lesson Guide
A teacher facilitation guide for the Budget Boss lesson, featuring a structured lesson plan, key vocabulary definitions, instructional sequences, and specific differentiation strategies for special education students.
Budget Boss Presentation
An engaging, high-contrast slide deck titled 'Budget Boss' that introduces students to essential financial vocabulary, variable vs. fixed expenses, basic algebraic problem-solving in a financial context, prime number identification, and fractions.
Money Moves Task Cards
A set of 6 visually distinct task cards for small group work, featuring budgeting word problems, algebraic 'mystery costs', half-off fractions, prime number pricing, and expense categorization.
Morning Money Warmups
A weekly set of daily math warm-ups designed for special education students, covering financial vocabulary matching, prime number identification, fractions of a dollar, simple algebraic equations, and multi-step goal setting.
Budget Check Quiz
A comprehensive short quiz for the Budget Boss lesson, featuring sections on financial vocabulary, algebraic word problems, sale price fractions, and prime number identification, with a bonus section on expense categorization.
Budget Boss Answer Key
A comprehensive answer key document for the Budget Boss lesson, providing solutions for the task cards, daily warm-ups, and the final quiz, including mathematical reasoning and scoring tips for the teacher.
Money Matters Vocabulary Cards
An updated set of 8 visual vocabulary flashcards for the Budget Boss lesson, featuring enhanced visual support with multiple icons per card to help special education students associate terms with real-world objects and mathematical concepts.
Money Moves Tracker
A student-facing weekly expense tracker designed for special education students, featuring a simplified ledger for recording income and expenses, a running balance column, goal-setting space, and end-of-week reflection prompts.