Using as many as possible real life personal finance problems in math education makes it more relevant and interesting to students. Nobody cares about calculating a cosine or doing a geometry proof.
The mention this New York non-profit that has a finance-based high school math curriculum.
The FiCycle Math Curriculum
It’s never too early to warn students about “the skim”. It’s the STD of money.
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Ok… assuming one is going to learn cosine (knowledge likely required for the majority of non-liberal arts college students), how does one use personal finance to teach it?
Personal Finance education is critically deficient in high school education, but I don’t think you can simply replace Trig and Pre-calc with it and call it a day.
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