Money Matters
Money Matters is a new and ready-to-go learning package offering an opportunity for Transition Year students to learn fundamental life skills relating to financial literacy.
Money Matters will help students to learn about saving, investing, enterprise and general money management.
Written by Susan HayesCulleton, who also co-wrote the bestselling Positive Economics for Leaving Certificate Economics, Money Matters is proudly sponsored by CFA Society Ireland
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Free teacher textbook |
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Teacher e-book |
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Digital resources |
TEXTBOOK
- Structured according to three strands - enterprise, personal finance and investing - so that the module can be shaped by the teacher and the students' interests
- Designed to suit all types of learners, from visual to logical to active
- Packed with exercises for active learning in the classroom
- Nestles concepts in real-life case studies for better understanding and application to the real world
- Introduces exciting, complex subjects such as the stock market in an accessible way
- Linked to concepts in the Economics, Business and Accounting Leaving Cert curricula
- Contains a question on journaling and reflective thought at the end of each chapter
- Offers five types of activities to develop key skills: numeracy, oracy, research, visual and writing
- Accompanied by extra activities and online tools for further investigation and suggests many free technology tools for homework or in-class projects
- Includes insights into careers and the skills sought out in today's workplace
