Financial literacy in the classroom

I teach high school students and many don't know a lot about finances, check books and credit cards and it isn't covered in our math curriculum in the core classes. I have had a lot of students ask more about this because it is applicable to the real world. One area that you can talk about credit cards is when talking about exponential growth. They can see how good and bad interest works.

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