Looking for consumer math class suggestions

[mamakelly]

I found one at BJU, any other consumer math classes you guys know of?

[KathyBC]

No experience, but I believe Math-U-See has one called Stewardship.

[Lori D.]

Copy/pasting from a previous post:

 

 

Consumer Math programs (all are 1-year / 1-credit)

- Abeka's Consumer Math (Christian) 

- AGS Consumer Math (Wieser Education -- Pearson published a revised version) (secular) 

- Alpha Omega Consumer Math (Christian)

- Bob Jones Consumer Math (Christian)

- Math-U-See Stewardship (Christian)

- Walch Publishing: Consumer Math (Power Basics series) (secular)

 

FREE Consumer Math supplemental resources

- Math & You (Ron Larson) (secular) -- 1 semester; free text with consumer math topics mixed with other topics

- Money Instructor: Spending Money and Consumer Math (lessons) (secular)

- Math Central, U Regina CA: grade 10 Consumer Math (projects, problems, etc.) (secular)

- Summit High School, Mr. Fisher: Consumer Math & Personal Finance (4 downloadable workbooks) (secular)

- IOHS: Weebly: Consumer Math (131-page workbook of consumer math -- exercise sets only) (secular)

- Beatrice Schools: Consumer Math (printable worksheets) (secular)

 

ALEKS Business Math

- Mathematic Foundations (Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimals, Solving for the Unknown, Business Statistics)

- Percents and Their Applications (Discounts: Trade and Cash, Markups and Markdowns, Payroll, Sales, Excise, and Property Tax, Interest, Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes, and the Discount Process, Compound Interest and Present Value, Annuities and Sinking Funds, Installment Buying, Rule of 78, and Revolving Charge Credit Cards)

- Personal Finance (Banking, Cost of Home Ownership, Life-Fire-Auto Insurance, Stocks-Bonds-Mutual Funds)

- Business Finance (How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial Reports, Depreciation, Inventory and Overhead)

- Other Topics Available (Chain discounts: Single equivalent discount rate

Employer tax responsibilities, Actual sales before taxes, Making partial note payments before due date, Annuity due, Paying off installment loans before due date, Sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation)

 

 

Personal Finance Supplements

- My Father's World: Personal Finance Elective (uses Money Matters for Teens (Burkett), Money, Possessions & Eternity (Alcorn) and has lesson plans) (Christian)

- Dave Ramsey Foundations in Personal Finance (DVD lectures & workbook)
- Larry Burkett's Money Matters for Teens

 

FREE Personal Finance resources

- The Actuarial Foundation: Building Your Future (downloadable, 4 units: Banking, Financing, Investing, Succeeding)

- NWT Literacy Council: Money Math (downloadable workbook on Personal Finance, Saving Money, Consumer Math) (secular)

- Money Skills (FULL CURRICULUM: online reality-based personal finance high school program) (secular)