The Actuarial Foundation: Essentials for personal finance geared towards high school students

Financial Literacy
Written By Madeline Goldsmith

The Actuarial Foundation provides free financial literacy resources to high school students through a series of books, handouts, and assessments. The Actuarial Foundation provides free resources from actuaries to help high school students improve their personal financial literacy skills. They aim to help teens learn how to create and live a financially healthy life. The Actuarial Foundation was created with the intent to help educate the public about financial and mathematical skills they would need throughout life. Students and teachers can select the exact topic they want to learn about and either download or print the book. Teachers are supplied with a guide that includes handouts, answer sheets, and instructions for them to help their students learn. Parents enjoy the comprehensiveness and organization of the website. They also stand behind the goal of the foundation to spread math and financial literacy among the population.

Grades: Personal finance resources are aimed towards high school students.

Cost: The Actuarial Foundation's financial literacy resources are all free!

OTHER DETAILS

Key features

Type of Tool: Textbook

Time required: The learning is self-paced and the resources cover many different topics. Students can schedule breaks when they want to and work according to their own schedules.

Special Needs:

Literacy Requirement (does a child need to know how to read):

Screens

Screens:  No, no screens are required

Online requirement:

Time

Parent/Caregiver Involvement: No, parent/teacher/caregiver involvement is necessary

Prep Time:  Minimal prep time

Other characteristics

Modality: Visual, Hands-on/kinesthetic

Adaptive: No, it is the same for every student

Educational Philosophy: Not really, doesn't seem to be influenced by a particular educational philosophy

Other characteristics:   Hands-on, Self-directed learning

Accountability

Assessment: Yes, there are built in assessment tools

State Standards: No

Teacher Accounts:

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Purchase:  https://www.actuarialfoundation.org/building-your-future/

Madeline Goldsmith

Madeline Goldsmith is a rising junior at a high school in Northern California. She has worked with the San Ramon Valley Education Foundation Summer Program to co-teach students interested in STEM fields and is a tutor at her high school. Due to shelter-in-place restrictions, she has first-hand experience with the boredom students can face when stuck at home, so she is excited to provide parents with additional resources to keep their children engaged in learning.

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