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7th Grade Math - Family Budget

Updated: Oct 11, 2025

This post explains and gives practice opportunities related to TEKS 7.13D:

use a family budget estimator to determine the minimum household budget and average hourly wage needed for a family to meet its basic needs in the student's city or another large city nearby

Instruction

Students learn calculate the minimum needed to meet the basic needs of a family.

STAAR Practice

Between 2016 and 2025, this supporting standard has been tested 1 time on the STAAR test. Videos explaining the problems can be found below. If you'd rather take a quiz over these questions, click here. The videos below are linked to the questions in the quiz as answer explanations after the quiz is submitted.

To view all the posts in this 7th grade TEKS review series, click here.

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