Looking for budgeting worksheets? Build practical budgeting, personal finance, consumer math, and financial literacy skills with this Mango Bay Café FREE budgeting worksheet and menu math activity. Students use a realistic café menu to compare prices, calculate totals, make purchasing decisions, and stay within a budget.

This engaging free budgeting worksheet also supports functional math, money management, calculator skills, and independent living skills while giving students meaningful practice with everyday spending decisions.

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Skills Practiced

• Budgeting
• Personal Finance
• Menu Math
• Consumer Math
• Financial Literacy
• Functional Math
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• Addition with Money
• Comparing Prices
• Decision Making
• Staying Within a Spending Limit
• Independent Living Skills
• Real-World Problem Solving

Perfect For

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This FREE budgeting activity works well for students who benefit from practical, concrete instruction connected to everyday spending decisions and can be incorporated into a broader personal finance, consumer math, financial literacy, functional math, transition, or life skills curriculum.