Financial Literacy in Content Area by Frances Brokens

I teach special education math in a behavior program, at the high school and occasionally middle school level.  I believe every student needs to know the basics of financial literacy, but the special education students especially need to be directly taught financial literacy.  I plan to not only teach financial literacy to my students, but also encourage the special education reading teacher to include lessons on reading contracts, comparing credit card/ loan applications, reading mortgages and other key elements of living successful adult life.  It will be very easy for me to incorporate financial literacy in my consumer math classes and a little more difficult to work financial literacy curriculum into pre-Algebra class, though it is equally important.   I will find a way to work it in either as mini-lessons, or an entire unit with calculating interest.  

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