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Grade 9-12
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Lesson

Earning Credit

Time: 90 mins,
Updated: April 1 2021,
Author: Martha Rush, David Mushrush
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Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Define credit score and interest rate.
  • Explain how lenders use credit scores to evaluate risk.
  • Explain the kinds of behaviors that affect people’s credit score.
  • Explain how credit scores affect interest rates for individual borrowers.
  • Compare simple and compound interest.
  • Use mathematical strategies to calculate monthly payments, given principal and interest rate.
  • Calculate how compound interest affects the total cost of a major purchase.
  • Compare the total cost of major purchases for people with low and high credit scores.

Standards

National Standards in Economics

National Standards in Financial Literacy

State Standards

Common Core State Standards

Concepts

Credit, Interest, Risk and Return

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn to compound interest and amortization to calculate the cost of a car.

Resources

Procedure

Click NEARPOD VERSION: EARNING CREDIT PART 1 and NEARPOD VERSION: EARNING CREDIT PART 2 to access an interactive version of the lesson powered by Nearpod: students interact and respond to questions on their device, and teachers will see their responses in real time!

Subjects:
Economics,Mathematics,Personal Finance

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