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Financial literacy

Ilka Daniels
I use to teach middle school math so it was easy to incorporate financial literacy.  I would address the connection to life as we did topics such as percents, decimals, fractions, estimating.  I also taught units with the science teacher incorporating these skills in real life.  For example, as we did a unit on building toothpick bridges the unit included estimating, keeping a check book, writing checks, etc