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Money Math: Lessons for Life

Let's face it--kids like money. So what better way to help young people embrace math than by teaching them about money? Money Math: Lessons for Life will help students in grades 4-8 apply math skills to some of life's costly challenges including financing a college education, interest on credit cards and paying taxes. Money Math is an integrated teaching resource guide that correlates to the personal finance and mathematics national standards. The book contains four math units, including student activities in which they apply math skills while learning personal finance concepts. To order click here.

 

Crash of 2008

The two PDF documents, Crash of 2008: Cause and Aftermath and Crash of 2008: Housing Crisis, provide background material on what led up to the economic meltdown in Fall 2008 and specifically examine the impact on housing in this country. The documents are resource tools for creating lessons around the economic crisis.

Crash of 2008: Cause and Aftermath
Crash of 2008: Housing Crisis

Merrill Lynch Classroom

IPO—Investing Pays Off:
It's never too early to start


This FREE curriculum has something for all ages: investing lessons for ages 7-10, 11-14 and 15-18; Young Entrepreneur poster series; PBS program to help youngsters get savvy about money; and Elmo poster and Sesame Street Magazine for ages 3-6.

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