I am looking for a business math or an accounting curriculum. Do either of these exist? Christian perspective preferred. Daughter has had algebra and just doesn't need to go higher, would totally stress her. She is wanting to go into a field centered around young children or animals. I feel the business math would help if she decides to open her own daycare. She has done great with Math U See this year but they don't have anything along this line.
Christian Light Education has business math (either practical math or consumer math) and accounting. They are from a christian perspective (conservative Mennonite) But they are pretty easy to work with and the cost isn't too bad usually. Consumer math costs 27.00 for the student materials and 13.50 for the teacher materials/ansawer keys. Accounting costs more. The website is www.clp.org
I think that all students would be well served by taking a course or two in consumer and business math. I had both in High School and dont regret it. I had the worlds worst math teacher in 10th grade for liberal arts math which was a hybrid of algebra 2 and Geometry for students who had taken alg. but were needing a bit more before moving to calc or anal. geo. It was also popular with seniors wanting to slack or remediate before college. Anyway the perve I had for a teacher was so busy with his relationship with a male student that he taught very little. THis did not stop the idiot from failing 24 of 34 students, largely seniors. I was afraid to move forward with math and took bus. and consumer math the next two years to play it safe. I learned alot. I have been able to use the lessons throughout my life to manage money fugally so I could persue many goals. Staying at home to HS is one of these. There were a great many lifeskills taught as part of the classes. For example in cons. we got in pairs and planned a vacation to a location we selected, trans cost, meals, accomodations etc. We actually got on the phone (no internet then) and called 1-800 #'s etc to get info. We wrote for brochures etc and had to plan activities etc. We calculated what percentage of annual income we were spending on vacation and compared this to national averages etc. We had a similar exercise where as pairs we found 3 jobs in the paper that we were qualified at that time to get, and averaged the pay (not good LOL) and had to find an apt. that we could afford and calculate our utils etc. To this day I am amazed that so many young folks buy new cars, use credit cards, have huge cell phone bills and buy super gaming computers before of after graduation from high school all while still living at home then wonder why they cannot afford to move out, or pay for college classes.
Jennifer, I was wondering about that one too, for my ds15. But we went with other things for this year.
To get off-topic in a way.. I just finished reading the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and it was eye opening! The lessons that he passes on are great. He has a book for children titled Rich Kid, Smart Kid and also a board game for kids titled CASHFLOW for Kids-board game that teaches children how to have money work for them. It comes with a book and audio cassete "Rich Dad's guide to raising your childs Financial IQ". Also he has an adult version of CASHFLOW that teaches people to get out of the Rat Race ( which is the middle of the board and you need to get out of there and on to the outer circle of the board). I borrowed the book from the library and the board game is sold a Toys R Us for arond $25.00. I am ordering that game for the kids and we are waiting for the book -Rich Kid, Smart Kid to be returned from the library so we can read it together. I thought I would bring this up here since it is related to accounting , in a way, and that it might be a fun way for kids and adults to learn about money management.
sos has a consumer math, life paks also carry them... aces paces have them too... I think thats School of Tommorow?
thanks for all the suggestions Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions. I will start researching them all. Lorna, I missed the math u see program. It is not in my brochure but I will check online. Brittany struggled with math in PS. We tried several different math programs since pulling her out of PS and this is the first year she has finally enjoyed doing math. Math u see seems to be her cup of tea. I'll check them all out and get her input. I once heard seniors graduating could not balance a check book. How sad. At that time our girls were only 12 and 14 but we had them open a checking account. They do their own deposits, write checks, balance with their statement. If they earn any money, they've learned their tithe is the first check they write out. I don't want them to be part of a statistic of young adults not able to balance their own finances and end up in the poor house. If you watch a majority of cahiers at stores, most cannot count back your change. They rely on the register to tell them how much to give back. Again, a sad state these young adults are in.
quote I once heard seniors graduating could not balance a check book. How sad. At that time our girls were only 12 and 14 but we had them open a checking account. They do their own deposits, write checks, balance with their statement. If they earn any money, they've learned their tithe is the first check they write out. I don't want them to be part of a statistic of young adults not able to balance their own finances and end up in the poor house. end quote I have know kids like this who had little common sense. THey had calc AP credit coming out of high school but could not do enough basic math to count change when the cash register was not working or when the customer changed what they were tendering. I plan to have my student working a small online business for educational purposes in the next year or two. I figure I will use amazon.com or ebay to have a virtual lemonade stand. I may even set up a stand alone site.
Crystal, games are a favorite way to learn, around here. We plan to look into that CASHFLOW game. Thanks for sharing!
I was on the website eToys yesterday ( dd's recieved a gift card for that site ) and they have a TON of educational games. History , math , science..Craium brand games....we ended up getting a DVD game called Road Trip by Discovery Channel. It covers all 50 states and you have to guess the state and city in which the question is being asked. We also got Cadoo by Craium. Also we went to the book section and there are books ranging in price of $2.49 to upwards of $40. We got a book called Science Experiments You Can Eat for $5.99! I thought maybe you ladies might want to check out that site for educational games and books that were different from the norm.
