Grade: 12
Subject Area/Course Credit: Mathematics, 1 credit
Personal Finance is offered in the 12th-grade. This course will not be a traditional math class in its presentation. Assessments will be project-based and focus more on presentations. Students will be exposed to numerical and financial ideas which they are most likely to encounter in their lives. Such topics as credit and credit cards, taxes and tax structure, mortgages, retirement planning, investing, actively managed mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), stocks, bonds, games of chance, statistics in sports, data presentation and spreadsheets, basic accounting principles and more.