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FINANCIAL CURRICULUM TEACHING MONEY
THEMES -
MONEY MANAGEMENT LESSON PLAN WORKSHEETS - MONEY LESSONS ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES - WAYS OF TEACHING IDEAS - LIFE SKILLS - TEACH PERSONAL FINANCE ECONOMICS CONCEPTS
CONSUMER MATH CHILD TEENS KIDS STUDENTS THEMATIC UNIT - FINANCIAL
EDUCATION
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Teaching
Money Skills, Personal Finance, Business Education, and Practical Life Skills
K-12 - Children - Adults - Special
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"Many
young people graduate without a basic understanding of money and money
management, personal finance, business, the economy, and investing. We hope to help
educators, home schoolers, parents and guardians, individuals, and
institutions teach money
skills, while reinforcing basic math, reading, vocabulary, and
other important life skills."
- Money Instructor® |
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Are you a teacher, parent, individual,
or institution who is interested in
teaching money concepts, personal finance, money management, business
skills, and real life
skills?
Do you want to use the subject of money
as an interesting way to reinforce basic consumer math, reading
comprehension, writing, and other basic skills?
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WHY TEACH MONEY AND PERSONAL
FINANCE?
According to
the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, the average
student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills in personal money
management. Many can not balance a checkbook, and have no
understanding of basic concepts involved with earning, spending, saving, and
investing.
As a result,
many young people fail early in the management of their first credit
experience and establish bad financial management habits, unable to correct
themselves, only learning by trial and error.
According
to the US Education Secretary, “Our goal at the Department of Education is
to meet the President’s goal of educating every child in our public schools,
so that no child is left behind. Not only does that include
teaching them to read and write and learn all the skills they need to excel
in school – they also need to know the skills to excel in life.
And one of the skills most critical to their success is knowing how
to manage money."
The
Departments released a report that identifies different options for
incorporating financial education into schools. Some of these options
are including financial education in standards set by state school boards;
incorporating financial concepts into material
being asked on tests;
urging textbook publishers to include more financial education content;
incorporating financial education materials into classroom lessons; and
training teachers on the importance of financial education.
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The fact is
that an increasing number of young people are growing up today
without a necessary understanding of money basics. We
will help you increase your students' understanding of money, while
providing an interesting way to reinforce other basic skills, such
as math and reading comprehension. Teaching and learning about money need not
just be a separate part of the curriculum. |
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So start teaching children early, and we have
money worksheets, money lessons, and
money lesson plans to help.
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Incorporate lessons about money into your regular curriculum. |
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Do you teach math, social
studies, or other subjects?
Then make your lessons more interesting and valuable to
students by teaching money concepts.
 Examples for teaching and learning money:
Use the subject of money as a strategy to reinforce basic math and reading comprehension skills in a more interesting way. Meanwhile, you
will be teaching your students necessary skills
for life.
Here are some comments from our members regarding how they use Money
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desk, pay if their late to class, etc. Your material has been helpful in
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that direction the better I like it! Thanks!
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I was very pleased to find your site when I began doing workshops with
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has been very useful
Thanks,
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resource.
IT IS JUST WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR STARTING MONEY WITH MY
KID. THANK YOU
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I'm using this information and problems for my Consumer Math class for
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I love these worksheets. They are so motivating for my students as they
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learning life skills.
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