Grade 9-12
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Financial Fitness for Life, Chapter 8: Managing Your Money

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Matthew Gherman
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Objective

Teachers will be able to:

• Identify and explain the meaning of key budgeting
terms.
• Identify the elements of a typical monthly
family budget.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Financial Markets, Saving

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In this personal finance webinar, see lessons, activities and assessments for teaching the do’s and don’ts of managing money.

Description

An overview of Chapter 8: Managing Your Money.

Apply the concepts of cost and benefit analysis to the budget-making process, while explaining factors such as disposable income, variable expense, fixed expense, balanced budget and net worth.

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