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

In this personal finance activity, students will identify the purpose of compound interest and how it works to build savings.

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn how compound interest makes savings grow.

In this economics lesson, students will read and discuss the comic book, “A Penny Saved".

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 compare the impact of time on long-term investments.

In this personal finance lesson, students will identify the opportunity cost of a spending decision.

In this personal finance lesson, students will identify ways to spend and save to learn how to reach financial goals.

Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it. In these games from the PBS science series NOVA, students practice strategies for making financial decisions by taking care of a pet while learning how to overcome common behavioral biases.

Students will investigate the unforeseen costs of car loans and/or house loans. They will then evaluate the economics of decision making, the ramifications of their choices, and options available to them. Students will compute costs and savings for a car and/or house loan with or witho…