Grades: 6-8, 9-12

Compound Interest Calculator

Our #1 resource on EconEdLink has been updated to include your favorite interactive graph! Read what a Business Teacher in Indiana said about our most loved resource, “I teach personal finance and the importance of saving for retirement. This compound interest calculator is best visual I have ever used. The wow factor is the graph that shows how much interest vs principal.”
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12

Math in the Real World + Nearpod

Math in the Real World lessons are now available in NearPod versions! Nearpod makes every instructional moment interactive with formative assessment and dynamic media. This collection brings you creative interdisciplinary and engaging lessons that teach important personal finance concepts in the context of math lessons.
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

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Grades: 9-12

Teaching Financial Crises - AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

Teaching Financial Crises is an eight lesson resource that provides an organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the 2008 financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. And it may be helpful in thinking about markets currently. Educators will find this is a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives on this challenging subject matter.

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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Financial Fitness for Life: Parents' Guide - AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

Improve your students'/kids' decision-making skills with these fun exercises and activities for online classrooms, friends, or families to do together.
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My Savings Goal

In this personal finance activity, students will identify a savings goal and steps to achieve it.
Key Concepts: Saving
15 mins
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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Set a Savings Goal

In this personal finance activity, students will identify the steps needed to meet a savings goal.
Key Concepts: Budgeting, Saving
20 min
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Grades 9-12

Compounding Your Savings

In this personal finance activity, students will identify the purpose of compound interest and how it works to build savings.
Key Concepts: Interest, Saving
20 min
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Grades 3-5, 6-8

How Many Jeans Can I Buy?

In this economics activity, students will review how many goods can be purchased at various prices.
Key Concepts: Demand
10 mins
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Grades 6-8, 9-12

A Review of Supply and Demand

In this economics activity, students will answer questions related to supply and demand curves.
Key Concepts: Demand, Markets and Prices, Supply
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On This Day in Economic History

January 29 1834

Federal troops are sent to the banks of the Potomac River to put down a riot by canal workers. This is the first labor dispute in U.S. history.