Lately, interest has surged in promoting financial literacy among students. Everyone from Alan Greenspan to Oprah Winfrey is talking about it. Why? With America's household debt reaching a staggering $6.7 trillion, it is important that we make financial education a priority, and provide our kids with the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, stay out of debt, and save for retirement.

Last year, twenty partners, including the U.S. Treasury and the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy launched Money Math: Lessons for Life. Money Math is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance. The 86-page book is a teacher's guide with lesson plans, reproducible activity pages, and teaching tips.

Free to teachers, Money Math was developed by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri/St. Louis in accordance with national school mathematics standards. The lessons were tested in Missouri schools and received rave reviews. Teachers need not be experts in personal finance to use Money Math in the classroom; questions and answers are clearly provided in the book.

Download a copy of Money Math: Lessons for Life (PDF file, 514K, uploaded 5/7/01).

Order your free copy of Money Math via e-mail.

For more details on Money Math:

• Quotes from Teachers and Educators
• Correlations of Money Math to State Standards
• Links to Personal Financial Education Resources
• Slide Show (PPT file, 289K, uploaded 11/5/02) introducing Teachers to Money Math

Money Math: Lessons for Life is sponsored by a group of generous partners who provided monetary grants and in-kind assistance to the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. Thanks to:

• AFSA Education Foundation
  
• American Payroll Association
  
• Center for Economic Education, University of Missouri/St. Louis
  
• Coinstar Inc.
  
• Consumer Credit Counseling Service/St. Louis
  
• Department of the Treasury
  
• Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
  
• Do Something
  
• Eastman Kodak Company
  
• The Fannie Mae Foundation
  
• JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
  
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
  
• Merrill Lynch & Co.
  
• Metropolitan Life Foundation
  
• The Mohegan Tribe
  
• Museum of American Financial History
  
• The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
  
• National Association of Securities Dealers Inc.
  
• Verizon Foundation

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