Financial Literacy

Financial Literacy - 1 elective credit

This course is designed to focus on mathematical concepts and applications needed for the design and management of personal finances. Financial literacy serves as a foundation for ALL students to learn and make mathematically sound decisions in their roles as consumers, employees, and/or entrepreneurs. This course extends students' knowledge of of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents as well as basic statistics and probability, algebra, geometry, and data analysis in the context of real life problem-solving situations. Emphasis is placed on various mathematical processes that include manual or electronic calculations of payroll, income tax preparations, interest computation, consumer information, managing income, buying insurance, selling and buying, making sound credit and investment decisions and other items that may be related to personal and business transactions. Mathematical and computational skills are reinforced in this course as well as critical thinking skills through applications of math in personal finance.

(Prerequisites: none)