MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS TEXTBOOKS
Including: Personal Finance, Personal Budgeting, Credit, Debt Management and similar personal finance topics.
Jump$tart Personal Finance Clearinghouse Library
The Jump$tart Coalition encourages schools and organizations serving youth to strengthen personal finance education and insure that personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience.
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Economics: Principles and Practices
Economics is a social science, that deals with the fundamental economic problem of scarcity - a condition caused by the combination of seemingly unlimited wants and limited resources.
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Economics: Today and Tomorrow
An introduction to economics - the study of how individuals, families, businesses, and societies use limited resources to fulfill their unlimited wants. To economists, wants and needs differ. Something that is necessary for basic survival is a "need;" anything else is a "want." Why can't people fulfill all their needs and wants? Scarcity - the basic problem of economics - forces people to make choices when satisfying their needs and wants.
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The Coin Counting Book (K-5)
Grades 1-3 Simple rhymes and large, clear photographs instruct children in coin denominations, grouping, and counting. The text begins with an introduction to pennies and soon adds nickels and dimes, quarters, and half dollars to show how larger denominations take form. Coins are arranged in sets with visual equations illustrating their mathematical equivalents. By the book's end, children are asked to think of the many ways a dollar is made (100 pennies, 4 quarters, etc.).
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Counting Money (ages 4-8)
Grade level 1-3. Used by private, public and home school educators to inspire self-guided practice. Designed to help kids build confidence in learning new concepts. The last page contains quizzes, puzzles and questions to reinforce the facts presented.
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Bunny Money (ages 4-8)
It's Grandma's birthday, and Ruby knows exactly what Grandma would love-a beautiful ballerina box. Max also knows what she'd love-a scary pair of ooey-gooey vampire teeth. Ruby has saved up a walletful of bills, but as unexpected mishap after mishap occurs, money starts running through the bunnies' fingers.... Will they have enough left for the perfect present? Wells' adorable story is also a fun and lively introduction to early math.
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What Color is Your Piggy Bank (ages 9-12)
Written for "tweens" and young teens who'd like to make some money, What Color Is Your Piggy Bank? challenges them to start their own small businesses and provides the necessary how-to steps and encouragement. It is filled with tips, quizzes, fun facts, quotations, and real-life success stories that keep youngsters focused and help them get their ideas off the ground. With an eye toward instilling positive future habits, the author also offers good general advice on saving and spending money wisely and giving back to the community. But the book's goal is not just about money - in the process of running a business, young adults learn how to think for themselves, emphasize personal strengths, deal with others in a professional manner, and manage time and resources - all great skills for just about anything they choose to do in the future.
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Personal Finance (grades 10-12)
Kapoor/Dlabay/Hughes' Personal Finance is the #1 market-leading Personal Finance text. It provides comprehensive coverage of personal financial planning in the areas of money management, career planning, taxes, consumer credit, housing and other consumer decisions, legal protection, insurance, investments, retirement planning, and estate planning. The goal of this text is to teach students the fundamentals of financial planning so they can make informed choices related to spending, saving, borrowing, and investing that lead to long-term financial security. Personal Finance, 7/e provides many financial planning tools using a step-by-step approach to help students identify and evaluate choices as well as understand the consequences of decisions in terms of opportunity costs.
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Guide to Personal Budgeting
The basics of implementing and maintaining a personal budget. Includes information on how to set up and follow a budget for a happier life.
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