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Curated OER

The Business of Credit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learn about credit ratings and how it plays a role in the function of small businesses. Learners use their knowledge of good and bad credit to role play and determine good credit vs. bad credit in the area of small businesses.
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Curated OER

How Credit Works

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils discuss credit terminology and analyze an actual loan application from a family member.
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Curated OER

Who Is Considered A Good Credit Risk?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply the C's of credit to evaluate who is a good credit risk. They are asked how their loaning money to friends relates to their class. Students work in groups of 4-5. They identify as many advantages and disadvantages of...
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Curated OER

Percents

For Students 7th - 8th
In this percents worksheet, students solve 5 different problems that include determining various percents. First, they determine the percent of increase in population over a year. Then, students determine the sales tax of a product...
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Curated OER

Weigh Before You Pay: Debit or Credit?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of debit and credit cards. In this debit and credit card lesson, students read an article about debit and credit cards. Students discuss differences between the two forms of payment. Students calculate the...
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Curated OER

Dangers of Payday Loans

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the interest and penalties associated with payday loans. In this finance lesson, students identify payday loans and the dangers of short term credit. Students create their own informational PowerPoint about payday loans.
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What happens to your money between the time you make a bank deposit and the time you decide to spend it? Take middle schoolers and teens through the process of opening checking and savings accounts, creating a personal budget,...
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Curated OER

Calculating Simple Interest

For Students 6th - 7th
For this math worksheet, students investigate the concept of paying interest on a loan. Students read 10 problems where they look at a picture of something they are going to buy at a certain price and interest rate. Students calculate...
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Curated OER

Student Loans

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students read three paragraphs and choose the word that shouldn't be in each one and write that word on the lines provided. Students place a tick on the lines with no mistakes.
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Curated OER

Cars: Math, Research, Economics, Loans

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate what the purchasing of a car entails. They explore car criteria and financing options.
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California Department of Education

College: Plan Well and Pay Less

For Teachers 11th Standards
They say you gotta pay to play, and postsecondary education is no exception! High schoolers learn how to research and analyze the cost of postsecondary education as well as the different ways to pay for schooling. Learners then work...
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Radford University

Surviving the Month

For Students 9th - 12th
Pupils create budgets based upon family expenditures. They determine what the monthly payments will be for buying a car and a house based on compound interest for the total amount. 
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Curated OER

The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Curated OER

Extra Credit: It’s No Fairy Tale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss their knowledge of payday loans and credit cards. In this Economics lesson, students complete a read an article and Q&A activity in groups, and play a vocabulary bingo game and a quiz game on payday loans. Students...
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5280 Math

Interesting Times

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Gain a little interest in functions with a real-life task. Young scholars analyze home loan data with a geometric sequence and series. They use the models to make predictions about the total loan payments at certain intervals in a useful...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Funding Your College Education

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Most of the kids in your senior class really want to go to college, but some of them have no idea of how they're going to pay for it. Cover the basics regarding college funding. Information includes types of college options, types of...
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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Paying for College: Understanding Financial Aid Options

For Teachers 6th - 10th
With many options to pay for college, middle schoolers learn about each possibility and that continuing their education is worth the investment. They discover the difference between a grant and a loan and that some expensive colleges may...
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Federal Reserve Bank

What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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EngageNY

Buying a House

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
There's no place like home. Future home owners investigate the cost of buying a house in the 33rd installment of a 35-part module. They come to realize that the calculations are simply a variation of previous formulas involving car loans...
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Curated OER

Who Gets the Money?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the characteristics of a good loan. Using a Loan Considerations worksheet, they examine and discuss their assigned credit area and list what characteristics, as a lender, a repayable loan should have.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Real Life Challenge- Give Me Credit!

For Students 7th - 9th
In this credit worksheet, students calculate the value of 4 different loans before completing a table about credit card offers advertised in newspapers, magazine, or junk mail.
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Curated OER

Interest Rate Assignment

For Students 9th - 12th
In this personal finance activity, high schoolers use their problem solving skills to calculate interest rates for loans of different lengths of time.
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Curated OER

Math in Society

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students critique and compare loan purchases dealing with credit rating, beacon scores, and credit-scoring systems. They define vocabulary associated with the lesson. Students deduce an individuals beacon score.
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Curated OER

Lessen the Loan

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle-schoolers explore the concept linear equations. They use the internet to navigate through videos and problems. Pupils problem solve to determine rates of change, slope, and x and y-intercepts.

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