Budget for Your Troop
This Math Fun Try-It activity teaches girls how to create a budget worksheet. Look at the example below.
Plan for two activities you would like to do. For example, the seven girls in Rosa's troop wanted to visit the zoo. They figured out what all the costs would be. Then they multiplied each cost (for example, entrance fee and lunch) by how many girls were going. To come up with the grand total for the troop, they added the amount of money needed for each activity in the column on the far right. See the sample-planning chart below.
| Zoo Cost
|
Cost for
Each Girl
|
|
Number of
Girls in Troop
|
|
Amount of
Money Needed
|
|
|
| Entrance fee
|
$4.00
|
x
|
7
|
=
|
$28.00
|
|
|
| Lunch
|
$3.00
|
x
|
7
|
=
|
$21.00
|
|
|
| Souvenir
|
$2.00
|
x
|
7
|
=
|
$14.00
|
|
|
| Grand Total = $77.00
|
