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Experience and explore the Hands on Banking® program, aligned with Common Core State Standards as well as national and state standards for mathematics, economics and personal finance, that can help your students sharpen their personal finance skills and build the foundation for a brighter fi…

Are you a high school teacher? Learn More about National Personal Finance Challenge (NPFC)!  Engage your students by participating in the National Personal Finance Challenge (NPFC), a fun and motivating team competition that provides high school students the opportunity to get financially sa…

Welcome to the National Personal Finance Challenge! To enter your state challenge, click your state below. At each state personal finance challenge, teams of up to four students with one teacher/coach showcase their expertise in earning income, buying goods and services, saving, using credit…

  The National Personal Finance Challenge (NPFC) is a nationwide competition that provides high school students the opportunity to build and demonstrate their knowledge of money management. Teams showcase their expertise in the concepts of earning income, buying goods and services, saving, u…

The first part of this lesson introduces students to the terms human capital, occupation, salary, and wages. Part two of this lesson provides the students an opportunity to compare selected careers including median salary and education statistics. The final part of this lesson provi…

To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups and participate in a game that highlights the importance of human capital.

In this math lesson, students will examine and calculate interest on loans and investments.

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…

Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the standard of living. Then students will visit one of th…

Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the standard of living. Then students will visit one of th…