Unit 8: Personal Financial Literacy
Mini-Unit 1: Expenses & Profit
Lesson 1.1: Fixed & Variable Expenses
This teacher-led practice activity includes three printable worksheets that help students analyze real-world expenses, classify costs as fixed or variable, and evaluate how business expenses change from month to month.
Students will:
• classify expenses as fixed or variable using real-life examples
• analyze monthly business expense reports to identify patterns
• explain how changes in usage, prices, or demand affect variable expenses
• determine which business expenses remain consistent each month
• justify their reasoning using data from financial reports
Standards:
TEKS: 4.10A, 4.10B
