Living Month Board
A budget deliberately allocates limited income across amounts and dates; commitments constrain a plan, but the remaining trade-offs can have multiple valid answers and plans can be revised without moral judgement.
MathematicsAges 10-14~12 min🎙️ Voice tutor
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What your child will figure out
- Allocate all available income in £5 units while covering named commitments and preserving multiple valid choices for the remainder.
- Use a dated month view to connect a balanced total with when income and expenses actually move.
- Explain how an automatic payday transfer turns saving from a leftover into a deliberate allocation that grows over time.
- Revise a complete plan after a surprise expense and transfer the same cover–choose–test strategy to a new month.
The levels
- Your month, your choices
Allocate all £40 and observe that several complete plans can be valid.
- Build around commitments
Cover £70 of named commitments and choose how the remaining £30 is shared.
- Set the payday chute
Choose a £5 or £10 automatic transfer and observe its growth across three months.
- The day 19 surprise
Revise a complete plan to cover a £15 repair without blame or a single prescribed source.
- A new month
Transfer the strategy to £120, changed commitments, a £30 goal, and dated cash flow.
Ready when they are.
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