Equip your students for the real world with a complete, project-based Financial Math curriculum. We blend essential math concepts with the practical financial decisions they’ll face after graduation—making learning relevant, engaging, and unforgettable.
View Course Outline PDFTraditional math curricula often leave students feeling unmotivated to learn. PersonalFinanceLab’s Financial Math course grounds every concept in a single, compelling narrative: Funding Your Desired Life. We provide the integrated tools to make it happen, saving you from patching together engaging resources.
Whether you need a full turnkey program or engaging learning materials to enrich your existing lesson plans, our course outline was designed to be adaptable. Our balanced ‘Instruct, Study, Apply’ model fits your preferred teaching style and helps boost student engagement.
Teacher-led mini-lessons and presentations establish core ideas, saving you hours of prep time.
Self-paced lessons with auto-graded quizzes provide immediate student feedback and effortless grade-keeping for you.
Our games, activities and calculators provide real data for students to analyze, making every decision meaningful.
Our 8-unit course follows a logical storyline, so students see how one financial decision influences the next. Each unit builds on the last, culminating in a comprehensive financial plan they can take with them into their adult lives.
Launch the capstone project! Students analyze their Budget Game data, explore careers, calculate the ROI of education, and build a baseline cost-of-living to set their future income goals.
From pay stubs to benefits packages. Students learn to calculate net pay, compare job offers using “total compensation,” and map out a 10-year financial vision.
Simplify how taxation works. Students practice filing, compare deduction types, calculate tax liability with progressive brackets, and connect the math to marginal vs. effective rates.
Build the saving toolkit. Learn about the Rule of 72, the power of compound interest (especially when you start saving & investing early), and draft a first retirement plan.
Move from saving to investing. Students research asset classes (stocks, bonds, ETFs), evaluate risk, and write a simple investment plan to guide their decisions in the Stock Game.
Learn to use credit as a tool. Students explore how APR and grace periods work, compare debt payoff strategies, and learn how to read a credit report and protect their rights.
Run the numbers on life’s biggest expenses. Students calculate the Total Cost of Ownership for vehicles, conduct rent vs. buy analyses for housing, and build mortgage amortization tables.
Build a financial defense plan. Students explore insurance (health, auto, life), stress-test their financial plan against inflation, recessions, and produce a recovery plan for emergencies and scams.
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