challenges students to use systems thinking and mathematical tools to develop a realistic and personal understanding of the dynamics of the economic system in which we live.
This knowledge and insight, along with computer simulation and support from teachers and parents, should help them maximize the chance for building a prosperous future.
Both modules Dollars and Sense: Stay in the Black: Saving and Spending and Dollars and Sense II: Our Interest in Interest are available in book form or online as pdf lessons and simulations.
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Dollars and Sense: Stay in the Black |
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Dollars and Sense II: Our Interest in Interest. |
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The books include Instructor Guides and Student Worksheets. By encouraging students to explore a diverse set of financial situations, the Guides and Worksheets further support student learning in four different ways.
- Learn by doing (constructivism): asking open-ended “what if” questions and using meaningful real-world examples.
- Learn by building a conceptual foundation: connecting important mathematical skills and tools (tables, graphs) with a systems thinking conceptual framework. This framework visually represents dynamically changing financial “systems” (e.g., a personal savings account).
- Learn by challenging preconceptions: discovering, by using computer simulations, that there is more than one right “answer” or way to successfully manage one’s finances.
- Learn by sharing, comparing, collaborating, and applying the lessons to meaningful personal financial problems.
Numerous mathematical and systems thinking standards are addressed by these 7 Lessons. |
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Select a Dollars and Sense: Stay in the Black lesson to download
Each lesson includes teacher/parent instructions and student worksheets
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Select a Dollars and Sense: Our Interest in Interest lesson to download
Each lesson includes teacher/parent instructions and student worksheets
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