Making appropriate economic choices and understanding the role of the economy in society.
What If Math is a reinvention of our mathematics curriculum. Today’s K–12 curriculum was defined in the year 1202 by Leonardo of Pisa to give merchants and traders a better system for doing their math. However, today computers do the algorithms for us, and business is no longer primarily about solving equations. Rather, business involves the use of spreadsheets and functional thinking.
Join the financial literacy movement! Intuit is challenging middle school and high school educators nationwide to bring one hour of financial literacy into the classroom.
The Wharton Global Youth Program mobilizes the extensive opportunities of the academic community at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School to educate and inspire precollegiate students to explore business practices, analyze the world’s complex challenges, and take the first steps in becoming leaders who will transform the global economy.
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, in Montclair, New Jersey, offers interactive, sports-based education experiences that explore topics in STEM, history, and language arts. Yogi Berra, who played baseball for 18 seasons with the New York Yankees before retiring in 1963, transcended the world of sports to become an American icon.
Are your students wondering why some things cost more than they did in the past? Tariffs are like hidden price tags that shape what we buy, who benefits, and even how countries interact.
The Economics Olympiad provides secondary school students and young adults around the world with an in-depth economic and financial education. It empowers educators with the necessary tools to facilitate this learning and to drive systemic change in educational systems to elevate the importance and quality of economic and financial education.
Economics, as often taught in schools, is all about the number of widgets and supply and demand curves, and these abstract concepts can be uninteresting to many students. But showing students how the interplay between the NFL and Taylor Swift is an example of the theory of the firm, and looking at Swift’s career and success as a means of understanding gender economic discrimination, can make these concepts more meaningful to students.
A team of educators from across the country and around the globe joined the ChooseFI Foundation to create the PreK–12 Financial Literacy Curriculum to help students become ready for life after graduation. The curriculum is totally free, easy to implement, and easy to adapt.
Every year invention education experts at the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) collaborate with NIHF inductees to develop an all-new curriculum for Camp Invention. By integrating 21st-century learning with fun, hands-on activities, the NIHF team ensures that each STEM education program not only aligns with state and national K–6 education standards but also provides the next generation of inventors with skills to last a lifetime.
The Bill of Rights Institute and Hoover Institution at Stanford University have launched a new curriculum that will help educators and students explore the intersection of economics and civic life in the United States. The Building Blocks of Progress is a full multimedia, blended learning experience consisting of 13 videos and six lesson plans.