PersonalFinanceLab Spring 2025 Update!

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We hope you are as excited as we are, because we have some major updates for your classes this Spring!

From financial math and calculators, to comparison shopping games, to bug fixes and improvements, stay tuned to see what we have in store for your spring classes!

If you want to learn more about these new features, watch our webinar here!

Update 1: Comparison Shopping Mini-Game

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First up is our new Comparison Shopping Mini-Game. We call it a “mini-game” because it is a short game added to our Personal Budgeting Game. Students can practice their comparison shopping skills every weekend of the game by choosing “Household Chores”.

Update 2: New Financial Math Lessons

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Next up, we have a major addition to our Financial Math Lesson Library – 6 new lessons covering everything from future value to vacation planning, and mortgage payments to logarithms!

Update 3: Snowball Debt and Avalanche Lesson

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By popular demand, we’ve added a new lesson on Accelerated Debt Repayment Strategies, featuring the Debt Snowball and Debt Avalanche approaches! This has been added to our “Credit” unit of our Personal Finance Curriculum Library.

Update 4: New Calculators Released

Next, we’ve released 8 new and updated interactive financial calculators! This includes our new house payment calculator (combining a mortgage payment calculator with PMI, homeowner’s association, escrow, and more), a Rent vs Buy comparison, an updated Millionaire Calculator, and more!

Update 5: Budget Game Update

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Last but not least, we’ve released a major re-working of the budget game monthly sequence of play! Now students will create their monthly Savings Goals, choose what to do over the weekend, and complete the month as their own separate Events in the game, instead of tying into the “die roll” used to move forward through time. This will help ensure students monthly activities happen in sequence, with less confusion when many events might happen in a single roll.

We hope you are as excited for these updates as we were building them!

Happy Learning!

-The PersonalFinanceLab Team