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Federal Reserve Bank

The Fed’s Toolbox

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This lesson is packed with instructional material and activities on the Federal Reserve System, monetary policy, and the relationship between bank reserves, interest rates, employment, and price stability.
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Car Deal Package

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Buying a car is no easy task, and can have major long-term consequences if done without proper financial knowledge. Ensure your learners are prepared with the information and criteria for comparing different car deals and signing contracts.
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Identity Theft & Consumer Protection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This presentation discusses two very important consumer-related topics: identity theft and financial contracts. The first part of the slide show illuminates ways in which personal information can be stolen and used for fraudulent...
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Who Wants to Spend $20,000?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
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Discount and Sales Price

For Teachers 4th - 6th
One of the most practical ways to teach about percentages is to use the real-life example of "sale" or "discount" pricing. This presentation poses many of these type of problems for young mathematicians who are trying to master the...
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Financial Institution Comparison

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Once learners are ready to choose a bank, how do they make a smart decision for their financial needs? Scholars help each other by jigsawing the research in groups. After introducing checking and savings accounts with the attached...
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Calculating Simple Interest

For Students 8th - 12th
Interest can be both a best friend and an enemy...show your learners how it can manifest through this set of 10 word problems. For each, they calculate time, principle, interest, or rate and choose an answer from multiple choice...
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I Can Buy Anything I Want: Consumer Debt and Social Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A clear, comprehensive overview of consumer debt, credit, interest, international currency, and social responsibility, this 45-minute session falters in the application stage. You'll need to create a way for learners to demonstrate their...
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Does My hair Disrupt Your Learning?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use the internet to research ways to save and earn money. They interview bankers and financial counselors to discover different types of investments. Students create public service announcements to inform their classmates of...
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Exploring Career Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a self-analysis exercise and choose a career to research based on the results. Students research their career using various resources including interview and internet research. They use the information gathered to...
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Investment Problems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this investment problem worksheet, students read story problems and use the interest formula to determine the total amount invested, or rate of return. This one-page worksheet contains six problems, with answers.
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How Do You Double Your Money?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars understand how to calculate the return on investments for various rates and lengths. Also, they compare their results with the StocksQuest Calculator, which lists calculations year by year.
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Arithmetic Sequences 1.6

For Students 9th - 12th
For this arithmetic sequences worksheet, students solve 45 short answer, multiple choice, and graphing problems. Students find the nth term of an arithmetic sequence. Students solve systems of equations using elimination. Students find...
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A Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students consider concepts of banking introduced in the story, "Basket of Bangles." In this banking lesson, students identify key terms through recall questions interspersed in the story. Using five handouts and a game, students compare...
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Numbers

For Students 8th - 12th
In this interest worksheet, students calculate interest and percentages of numbers in number and word problems. Students complete 29 problems.
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Money: Kids and Cash

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discuss what a bank is and what it is used for. In this mathematics lesson, students solve problems related to interest and percentages.
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Council for Economic Education

You Can Bank On This! (Part 3)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use a chart to show how gaining interest is a beneficial part of having a savings account. In this banking lesson plan, learners also learn about the workings of an ATM and a checking account.
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Time Value of Money

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students evaluate the time value of money. In this economics instructional activity, students define inflation, interest, and the future value of money.
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Financial News

For Students 7th - 12th
In this financial word problems worksheet, students solve word problems involving decimals, interest, multiplication, and more. Students complete 7 problems.
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Savings Accounts and Interest

For Teachers 1st
First graders study money, banks, and getting interest on money. In this consumer math lesson, 1st graders listen to Stan and Jan Berenstain's, Berenstain Bears' Trouble With Money. They use the concepts in the book to discuss...
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Final Analysis

For Students 7th - 9th
In this consumer mathematics activity, students calculate the total amount of money they earned during a project given. Then they transfer the expenses from each month to find their totals. Students also calculate to find their final...
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M&M Interesting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the concepts of trade-offs and opportunity cost to decide between savings accounts with simple interest and those with compound interest. They calculate interest earned on account balances while working in groups and...
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How Much Does That Car Cost?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students calculate how much it costs to buy a used car and finance it through a bank. They select a car from the newspaper, conduct Internet research on current auto loan interest information for four different states, and create a...
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Buying on Credit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students determine how buying on credit adds to the total cost of an item by computing the interest. They find a major item advertised in a magazine and identify the price. Then they identify the rate of a credit card and calculate the...