Learn to count money and earn fish for the fish bowl. There are three levels of difficulty.
Money Math: Lessons for Life
From site: Money Math: Lessons for Life is a four-lesson curriculum supplement designed for students, grades 7-9, who will learn math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book features 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, receiving excellent reviews. Expertise in personal finance is not required for teachers to use Money Math in the classroom; questions and answers are clearly provided in the book.
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. For five years, teachers have used Money Math: Lessons for Life in core mathematics classes, helping promote financial literacy among students nationwide.
Financial Literacy Games
From site: Games can be powerful teaching tools… Teens and even full-grown adults can learn while playing games.
Financial Soccer – Test your knowledge with Financial Soccer, a fast-paced, interactive game that uses the excitement and energy of soccer to engage children and adults in the essential topics of personal finance. The multiple-choice question game offer three distinct skill levels, game lengths, as well as single and two player games.
Ed’s Bank – Help Ed collect enough money to shop for his favorite things. This entertaining game provides a lighthearted way of teaching younger audiences about saving and differing money values.
LearningReviews.com note: For teachers, there are financial literacy lesson plans suitable for different grade levels.
FDIC Learning Bank
From site: Welcome to FDIC’s Learning Bank! My name is Carmen Cents and I’ll be your guide through the Learning Bank. Click on the WHO coin on the left to begin our tour!
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created in 1933 to provide insurance protection for depositors if their bank fails. Since 1933, the FDIC has responded to thousands of bank failures, and its insurance protection has been expanded to include accounts in savings and loans associations. All insured depositors of failed banks and thrifts have been protected by the FDIC. The FDIC protects up to $250,000 of your funds for savings or checking account, certificate of deposit, or money market; and up to $250,000 for IRA or Keogh accounts (effective April 1, 2006).
Change Maker
From site: Get as much money in your piggy bank as possible, by figuring out the correct change.
Figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something. For example, if something costs $3.75 and you pay with a five dollar bill, you would expect back one quarter and one dollar bill.
If you get the answer correct, the amount of change is added to your piggy bank. If you get the answer wrong, the correct amount of change is subtracted from your piggy bank. The more money you get in your piggy bank, the harder the questions will get.
