In Seventh Grade
Seventh grade students calculated sales and income taxes, identified components of a personal budget, created and organized financial assets and liabilities, used a family budget estimator, calculated and compared simple and compound interest earnings, and analyzed and compared monetary incentives such as coupons and rebates.
In Eighth Grade
Eighth grade students will solve problems comparing the interest rate and loan length, explain how investments grow over time, calculate the cost of repaying a loan, identify advantages and disadvantages of different payments, identify situations that represent financially responsible decisions, and estimate the costs of attending various education institutions.
