The standards your students meet, state by state

Personal finance: all six national standards

Most state personal finance standards are built around the National Standards for Personal Financial Education (Council for Economic Education and Jump$tart Coalition). The course covers all six areas:

  • Earning Income: Revenue, Expenses, and Profit, Jobs, Commissions, Other Taxes

  • Spending: Banking, Price Per Square Foot, Cheap vs. Expensive in the U.S., Bills, Sales Tax, The Budgeting Game, The Budget Simulator

  • Saving: Free Money, Banking, How Banks Make Money

  • Investing: The Stock Market, Pyramid-Ponzi Scheme, Bitcoin, Percent Change, Shark Tank

  • Managing Credit: Credit Cards, Mortgages, How Banks Make Money

  • Managing Risk: Pyramid-Ponzi Scheme, Insurance Part 1, Insurance Part 2, Intro to Gambling, Casinos, Carnival Scam Science, Lottery and Sports Gambling

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Life Lessons Math covers middle school math standards on percents, rates, rational numbers and probability, several high school standards.

Tap your state to see the math and personal finance standards for your state and which of the Life Lessons Math it maps to. Personal finance requirements are from Next Gen Personal Finance (ngpf.org)