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Welcome to Financial Literacy!
Contact me via email: dbeck@wood-ridgeschools.orgCLICK HERE TO LINK TO THE SYLLABUSCourse Description: This half year course is designed help students develop the knowledge and skills to make informed, responsible decisions that could affect their financial futures. Whether today’s high school students head to college or straight into the workforce, they will face a robust marketplace of financial products and services. To better navigate our nation’s financial systems, they need to learn more about saving and investing, using credit wisely, avoiding fraud, and a number of other financial topics.
Supplies: Students will need a binder/notebook, folder, pen, pencil, basic calculator and ear buds or head phones.
Everfi: Grading- Each online module takes 40 to 50 minutes to complete and is followed by a 10 question quiz. Each quiz question is worth 2 points for a total of 20 points.
Grading is as follows, - no correct answers but the module was complete is a 30 points%
1 correct answer is a 32 points or a 64%
2 correct answers is a 34 or a 68%
3 correct answers is a36 or a 72% and so forth
All correct answers is a 100%
Students can retake the quiz as many times as they want up until the due date.
Each module is a performance based assessment
See Class Expectations & Grading web page for more information.
Links:Click here for the future value calculator: http://www.calculator.net/future-value-calculator.htmlClick here for the present value calculator: http://www.calculator.net/present-value-calculator.htmlClick here for the monthly saving calculator http://tcalc.timevalue.com/all-financial-calculators/investment-calculators/monthly-savings-calculator.aspxWatch these videos:http://youtube.com/watch?v=g6_YvIhPKMkClick here to link to Everfi - http://platform.everfi.net/registration/loginClick here to access the Bergen Record online http://njmtherecord.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspxNote: our user name is Wood-Ridge1 and our password is passwordSome fun financial websites!!
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/games
https://www.driveofyourlife.org/main/index.html (for career aptitude)
GO TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM FOR ASSIGNMENTS