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Analyzing Federal Reserve Data
How do you assess the health of the economy? In these lessons, students will analyze data in real time by linkin…
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Free K-12 Teacher Webinars
The webinars cover multiple topics on how to integrate personal finance and economics in the classroom. Teachers will earn continuing ed credits and will leave with relevant lessons, resources and tools that can be implemented the next day.
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Math in the Real World
A collection of lessons and activities that teach important personal finance and economic concepts in the context of math lessons.
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Cybersecurity, Personal Finance and Economics
How do students avoid running up a bill on their parents’ credit cards while they’re using an app? How do you recognize false information on the internet? These are a sample of the questions answered in these cybersecurity lessons where students will explore basic concepts personal finance and economics.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Are the Presidential Candidates Telling the Whole Story?
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In This Day in Economic History
November
17
1994
On this day in 1994 Sony writes off their ailing movie production studio Columbia. In 1989 Sony purchased Columbia to help them corner all sides of the movie entertainment market. Sony was primarily an electronic hardware company so in buying Columbia they hoped to have movie production under their belts as well. But after Columbia produced a series of flops in the early 1990's resulting in losses of $3.4 billion Sony decided to swallow the bitter pill and write off Columbia for $2.7 billion.