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Easy Budget Project for High School Students

Are you struggling to teach budgeting in your classroom? Here’s an easy budgeting project your students will love! One of the biggest challenges I faced as a personal finance teacher was teaching students who had...

Four Fun Budgeting Lessons & Activities for High School Students

Teaching budgeting doesn’t have to be boring! Budgeting is an effective way to avoid debt as an adult, but it can be tricky to teach to teenagers who haven’t had many life experiences or financial...

My Favorite Real-World Math Project

Looking for a fun way to give your students a reality check while building their financial literacy skills? This is one of my favorite real-world math projects, and it will have your students in shock....

3 Halloween Graphing Activity Ideas

Need some fun practice with linear equations, plotting points, or geometric transformations?   I’ve admitted that I’ve never really loved doing holiday activities in my math class.  I think this is because many activities I’ve used...

Teaching Teens about their Paychecks

Many students get their first job during high school.  This provides an excellent opportunity to teach some financial literacy and, of course, work on some practical math skills!  Personally, I’ve found that students really appreciate...

Teaching Teens How To File Federal Income Taxes

Looking for good federal income tax lessons for high school students?  I’ve got what you need to teach students about W2s, tax tables, Form 1040, and more.   If you’ve read many posts on this blog, you...

How to Speed Date in Math Class

Yes, you read that right. Speed dating in math class. Here’s a great activity idea for you that can be used infinitely many topics. The first time I used speed dating was with my Algebra...

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