Fun with Finance: Math + Literacy = Success

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This volume in the readers theatre series offers innovative approaches that let teachers introduce basic concepts of finance and wealth-building into the elementary school classroom. What's the best way to add lessons on money management and building wealth to grade school math By making it realand making it fun! Fun With Finance: Math + Literacy = Success helps teachers bring the world of finance into the elementary school classroom in a way that engages and captivates students. Fun With Finance focuses on a range of topics, from currency and the global economy, to business entities, savings, credit, real estate investments, the markets, budgeting, and goal planning. Each chapter offers grade-appropriate lessons, with a readers theatre script, glossary, cross-curricular activities, a list of Web siteseven a board game!to make learning a genuinely successful enterprise. Lessons and activities are fully cross-referenced to curriculum standards to make sure they meet school requirements.

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Enhanced with numerous instructional games and activities, as well as resource lists, Fun with Finance is an especially appropriate and highly recommended supplement for traditional classroom and home schooling curriculums. * Midwest Book Review - Library Bookwatch *
This introduction to finance for students in Grades 4 through 6 uses scripts from Readers Theatre presentations to cover such basic concepts as money, investment, credit and planning for a financial future. Peterson is a stock investor, real estate agent and legal assistant, and she provides both the text and the illustrations for chapters that explain employment, building a business, budgets, stocks and bonds and real estate. Exercises in each chapter introduce students to such skills as getting through a job interview, comparing values of world currencies, managing a financial portfolio and improving credit scores. * Reference & Research Book News *

Author Bio

CAROL PETERSON is a licensed real estate broker.