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Free Lesson Book from the US treasury: Money Math
Lately, interest has surged in promoting financial literacy among students. Everyone from Alan Greenspan to Oprah Winfrey is talking about it. Why? With America's household debt reaching a staggering $6.7 trillion, it is important that we make financial education a priority, and provide our kids with the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement.
Twenty partners, including the U.S. Treasury and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, created Money Math: Lessons for Life. Money Math is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book is a teacher's guide with lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips. A teacher needs only one copy of Money Math to teach several classes of students.
Free to teachers, Money Math was developed by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri/St. Louis in accordance with national school mathematics standards. The lessons were tested in Missouri schools and received rave reviews. Teachers need not be experts in personal finance to use Money Math in the classroom; questions and answers are clearly provided in the book.
Download a copy of Money Math: Lessons for Life (PDF file, 514K, uploaded 5/7/01).
Order your free copy of Money Math by sending an e-mail with your mailing address to moneymath@bpd.treas.gov.
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/mar/marmoneymath.htm
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What an important find. Public education does a very poor job of preparing people for the realities of life. A kid who graduates high school might--if he or she is lucky--know when Columbus landed on American shores, but he or she will probably know very little about finance.
dave
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