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Budgeting

In this Core Maths task students are asked to create a budget plan for a mobile phone company covering the manufacturing, marketing and staffing costs. You may also want to see the Budgeting and foreign exchange Core Maths resource

Budgeting:  Lesson plan
The teacher guidance includes suggestions for warm-up activities, detailed activity notes and suggested scaffolding and extension tasks.

Budgeting: Student template
This Excel file contains a possible template for students to use when completing the task.

Budgeting: Answer
This Excel file contains a model student answer.

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