Where’$ My Money

A dark ‘game’ used in select Financial Literacy circumstances to teach how compounding interest works as well as the value of paying down debt.

Example of a Loan and the Interest and payments made. Note that even after the hard work of this family, they had barely paid off $58 of the original $5,000 loan made to them as a result of a high rate and compounding interest.
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Financial Literacy – Self Assessment

One of the challenges of teaching financial literacy is developing an assessment of where individual students and the entire class is at in regards to their knowledge and habits. The following self-assessment tool is a non-scientific method to perform this evaluation.

Financial Literacy Self Assessment Tool
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