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F. Financial Literacy
Overall Expectation
By the end of this course, students will:
F1. Financial Decisions: demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to make informed financial decisions
Overall expectation
F1. Financial Decisions
demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to make informed financial decisions
Specific expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
F1.1 Financial Decisions
identify a past or current financial situation and explain how it can inform financial decisions, by applying an understanding of the context of the situation and related mathematical knowledge
Teacher supports
Examples
• financial situations that students may identify:
o systemic, current, or historical events and issues, or economic shifts, that happen at a
global, national, local, or individual level
• considerations for understanding the context of the situation to inform financial decisions:
o What factors contribute to a financial situation? o Who does the financial situation affect?
o What factors contribute to a financial decision?
o Who has the ability to make decisions as a result of the situation?
o Who is affected by the decisions?
o What are the impacts of the decisions?
o What aspect of mathematics is helpful in order to understand the situation and the
decisions that might be made?
• related mathematical knowledge: o proportional reasoning
o operation sense
o linear and non-linear relations
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