LET’S TRY ONE
A council has 100 tokens. Lighting costs 60 and benches cost 30. Can it fund both without exceeding the budget?
Yes; the total is 90 tokens.
60 + 30 = 90, leaving 10 tokens.
Learning steps & teaching tips
Apply an invented budget constraint and separate numerical feasibility from value judgments.
- Identify the total available budget.
- Calculate the cost of each proposed bundle.
- Discuss whose stated needs a feasible option serves without treating that preference as a numerical fact.
Try it together
Create three imaginary school projects and a fixed token budget. Build feasible bundles, then write a reasoned choice using a named goal.
Add the stated costs first; then distinguish what the budget permits from which goal a group values most.