Finance & Budgeting - Armour

Develop skills needed to manage personal money and how to keep track of spending.  Students will have a greater understanding of banking services, fees and interest, and how to better understand their paychecks, deductions, benefits, and paying taxes.  Students will pick a mock career and salary to build a budget and adjust expenses to maintain financial stability.

Banking and Checking Simulation Program - T17034

Students will learn basic banking vocabulary and complete a six-month checking simulation.  The checking simulation includes writing checks, completing deposit slips, entering information in the check register, keeping accurate balances, finding and locating errors, and balancing register with statement.  Students also learn about debit cards and ATM cards as well as how to use them safely.

Finance and Budgeting - T17024

Consumer Economics - T17014

Learn various aspects of getting and managing credit, using credit cards and debit cards responsibly, identity theft, and being wise consumers. Learn about the importance of having appropriate insurance coverage, insurance vocabulary, and various types of insurance and their benefits.  Other current consumer economic topics may be covered.

Basic Money and Math - T17004

Students improve their skills with a variety of money applications, telling time and choosing the correct mathematical application needed to solve a problem.  The following curriculum is introduced: counting combinations of coins and bills, counting by fives and tens, decimal placement, using a calculator, counting back change, concepts of having enough money not having enough money, pay to the next dollar system, choosing mathematical operation needed, tip and tax charts, pay to the next dollar and telling time using an analog or digital clock.