Financial Literacy

From credit score Jenga to the bean game, here’s a starter kit of simple financial literacy ideas to incorporate into everyday classes.

When schools teach financial literacy, they help students develop lifelong money management skills—and families benefit too.

From math to reading to indoor recess, there are many opportunities to weave financial concepts into existing elementary routines and lessons.

A financial literacy project helps high school students plan for the lives they hope to lead through discussions of values and budgets.

Lessons on credit and credit cards, taxes, and how to find an apartment and make the rent are invaluable for high school students.

Giving older students a plan for saving, spending, and sharing their money can help them make wise financial decisions in the future.

When teens work together to solve puzzles, they practice much-needed social skills—and engage more deeply with the content.

Explore resources and downloads for educators seeking to help students learn financial concepts, practice money management, and build strong financial decision-making and economic-reasoning skills.

Andrew Miller, Edutopia's resident advocate for game-based learning, teams up with financial literacy expert Brian Page to look at some friendly, engaging options to promote financial literacy among students.

Guest blogger Brian Page, a high school economics teacher, presents three resources for teaching financial literacy to elementary students, including websites by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability and financier Warren Buffett.

Evidence points to seven key approaches to integrating curricula that have been shown to be effective.

Students who learn financial literacy skills gain a wealth of knowledge that will yield returns well into their future.

We interact with the economy every day, but how well do we really understand it? This new video series aims to change that, with 20 short films explaining concepts like debt, money, and supply and demand.

As financial literacy expands beyond balancing a checkbook to include entrepreneurship and investing, schools must begin to define and teach this critical life skill.