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- 6th - Higher Ed
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Students discover the time value of money using the StocksQuest Calculator. They also calculate the future value of their money, a single investment of $1,000 or a monthly investment of $100. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students confront basic personal finance choices they will face throughout their lives. There is a natural progression to the lessons, beginning with career choices, leading into budgeting and planning, and ending with the impact of credit and long-term savings and investing. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students are provided with an overview of the saving and investing process, how interest rates impact the decisions that savers and borrowers make and examines how the economic choices individuals make lead to certain positive and negative consequences. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students derive the formula for the balance of a loan after a given number of payments. The lesson illustrates that an annuity is simply a loan situation with a reverse of the payment (a loan pays off an amount while an annuity accumulates to an amount). Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the changes in real GDP in the recession of 2001. After reading a case study, they discuss how the changes reflect the situation of the economy. They discuss recent data trends and historical perspectives. They read an article and answer questions. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the Gross Domestic Product of December 2002. Using the data, they analyze the factors that could have caused the increase in the rate. They discuss the trends involved with new data announcements and why GDP is important in the study of Economics. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the Gross Domestic Product during the first quarter of 2002. Using the data, they identify factors that might have caused the rate to increase by 5.6 percent. They discuss why changes in the GDP are important to the economy as a whole and the issues surrounding new data announcements. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter of 2002. Using the data, they identify the factors that might have caused the increase in the rate during this time. They examine the major issues surrounding new data announcements and research historical trends. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students receive examples of stocks, certificates of deposit, mutual funds, retirement income, saving accounts, 401K, Keogh Plans, and other inventment trends from a financial instution. They then compute and compare returns on various types of investments using recurrence relations. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students track the performance of a stock they have chosen to research. After reviewing how the performance of stocks affects the economy, students working in groups, fictitiously invest an amount of money on a particular stock. They monitor their stock's performance over time and report of their earning and/or losses. Full Review »
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