This content contains grade level Personal Finance Case Studies, resources to help teachers teach, helpful guides for teachers to write their own case studies and sample case presentations and videos of past students. These are great resources to enhance your teachings, use as projects or year end assignments and to prepare students for case based instruction in their future post secondary or at case competitions.

This task gives students an opportunity to work with exponential functions in a real world context involving continuously compounded interest. They will study how the base of the exponential function impacts its growth rate and use logarithms to solve exponential equations.

This task is preliminary to F-LE Compounding Interest with a 5% Interest Rate which further develops the relationship between e and compound interest.

This task develops reasoning behind the general formula for balances under continuously compounded interest. While this task itself specifically addresses the standard (F-BF), building functions from a context, a auxiliary purpose is to introduce and motivate the number e, which plays a significant role in the (F-LE) domain of tasks.

This 11-minute video lesson provides an introduction to bankruptcy liquidation (Chapter 7). [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 22 of 184]

This 11-minute video lesson provides an overview of the estate tax. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 155 of 184]

This 3-minute video lesson looks at what is the Futures Fair Value and how traders use it as an indicator for stock price direction at market opening. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 158 of 184]

This 6-minute video lesson provides a basic overview of capital and human capital. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 156 of 184]

This 3-minute video lesson takes a look at actual sequential and year-over-year inflation data. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 160 of 184]

This 10-minute video lesson introduces balance sheets by looking at a home purchase to illustrate assets, liabilities and owner's equity. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 7 of 184]

This 7-minute video lesson provdes an introduction to compound interest. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 51 of 184]

This 15-minute video lesson provides an understanding of how mortgage interest rates are quoted. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 178 of 184]

This 12-minute video lesson provides a basic introduction to risk and reward. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 157 of 184]

This 9-minute video lesson uses the Rule of 72 to approximate how long it will take for an investment to double at a given interest rate. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 52 of 184]

This 3-minute video lesson provides the basics of what price inflation is and how the CPI-U is calculated. [Core Finance playlist: Lesson 159 of 184]

Financial Basics is a workshop designed to teach young adults essential financial skills, including budgeting, saving, credit management, investing, fraud prevention, and financial planning.

Included: presenter's manual, participant's notebooks, presentation slides, evaluation form, learning videos.

If you'd like hard copies of the materials, allow 4 to 6 weeks for order fulfillment.

Module 1 - Introduction
Module 2 - Budgeting
Module 3 - Managing Cost of Living
Module 4 - Credit & Debit Management
Module 5 - Saving & Investing
Module 6 - Financial Goals
Module 7 - Protect Yourself
Module 8 - Summary

Examine the concept of interest.

Teacher Guide included.

3-5 hours