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In this personal finance lesson, students will research mobile apps for financial decision making.

Friday the 13th was your lucky day. You won the lottery! The lottery officials have given you a choice. You can either receive the $10 million now in one lump sum, or you can receive $1 million a year for the next 20 years. Now what do you do?

In this personal finance lesson, students will make choices about buying stocks.

This lesson investigates the value of sports franchises in the various professional sports leagues. Students will investigate the revenues and costs of pro sports teams and determine which teams are the most valuable. Lastly, students will understand the specific rules of the game that lea…

This personal finance manual provides a framework for teaching personal finance in kindergarten through 12th grade.

This updated lesson is based on the novel, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson. Set mainly in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s, 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen, works six days a week, from dawn until dusk, running weaving looms in a murky dust-and lint-filled factory, trying to save enough money to…

Income for most people is determined by the market value of the productive resources they sell. What workers earn depends, primarily, on the market value of what they produce and how productive they are.

In this personal finance lesson, students will compare the impact of time on long-term investments.

In this math and personal finance lesson, students determine their monthly earned income and estimate how much they could be saving.   They graph the outcomes and find the rate of change and the line of best fit. 

One of the most important financial decisions people make is whether to go to college. The price tag of a college education is rising, but so are the benefits. In this lesson, students will begin by learning the relationship between level of education and the average unemployment rate; and l…