Money Maths: Budgeting, Shopping and Smart Spending
Practical budgeting and shopping problems students will use for life.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude/Copilot)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Enter the topic and class.
- 2. Add your city for realistic prices.
- 3. Send and read the budget problems.
- 4. Ask for a family-budget version too.
- 5. Print or share the answer key.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If prices seem unrealistic, reply: 'Use current realistic Indian prices and re-verify every total and percentage discount twice.'
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as a practical maths teacher who teaches money skills for everyday life.
CONTEXT: My students are in [CLASS/GRADE] under [BOARD or EXAM]. They live near [CITY/TOWN]. I want them to handle real money maths: budgeting pocket money, comparing shop prices, discounts, GST, monthly family budgets, saving for a goal. Topic focus: [TOPIC e.g. percentages / decimals / simple interest].
YOUR TASK:
1. Build a short realistic scenario (a student or family with a fixed monthly amount of money).
2. Create 8 problems: needs vs wants budgeting, best-deal comparison, percentage discount, GST added, saving for a goal over months, splitting a bill.
3. Range easy to hard.
4. Full solution for each.
INPUT: Here is the topic and any constraint (e.g. budget amount): [PASTE HERE].
HOW TO WORK IT OUT: Solve internally first. VERIFY each total and percentage by two independent checks (recompute, and sanity-check against the budget so totals never exceed available money unless the problem intends a shortfall). Use realistic Indian prices and the correct GST idea; never invent values. Keep all arithmetic legible.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
- 'The Scenario' (3 to 4 lines).
- 'Budget Worksheet' numbered 1 to 8 with marks.
- 'Solutions' (full working, each ending with 'Check:').
- 'Money Lesson' (2 lines on a real-life money habit this teaches).
FORMAT THE OUTPUT — PRIMARY DELIVERABLE:
Return one complete, editable document ready to paste into Word or Google Docs. Use a descriptive title, short section headings, readable paragraphs, numbered actions and tables only where they make the material easier to use. Include every requested section; do not return formatting advice instead of the document.
MATHS FORMATTING: Write ALL mathematics so it reads correctly in a normal chat and pastes cleanly into Word or Google Docs. Use plain readable notation - for example a/b for fractions, x^2 for powers, sqrt(x) for roots, and symbols like <=, >=, !=, +-, pi, theta, integral and sum. Do NOT output raw LaTeX or code such as \frac{}{}, \sqrt{}, x^{2}, $...$ or \( ... \) - these appear as broken symbols to a teacher in a free chat.
RULES: Realistic prices, simple language, nothing above class level. Always show currency as Rs.
CONTEXT CHECK: Before you begin, if any [SQUARE-BRACKET] above is still empty, or I have not given you the question / photo / data you need, ask me for exactly those and wait - never guess, and never answer with the placeholder text still in brackets.
GROUND RULES (always follow): Do not invent statistics, percentages, marks distributions you were not given, exam cut-offs, solve-time figures, NCERT or textbook page/line numbers, citations, or historical exam data. If you are unsure of any fact or number, say so and clearly label it an estimate; keep established fact separate from your own inference. Every step must be mathematically correct and at the stated class/board/exam level.
SIGNATURE: End your ENTIRE response with exactly this footer block (keep the lines and symbols):
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