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Teacher Talk
I wrote our NGPF unit on Financial Pitfalls, and far and away my favorite lesson was all about the lottery. Everyone knows the basics: Millions of Americans buy tickets, most of the time no one wins, and then all of a sudden five coworkers from a factory in middle-America strike it big. WAHOO! And everyone else wins $0 but will inevitably try again next time the Mega Millions is off the charts.
But as I researched, I found that the lottery is so much more interesting for so many reasons. I’m going to resist the urge to write every National Reading Month post about the lottery, but here’s one to get us started…
Why You Keep Playing the Lottery
What is it? This article has lottery statistics, psychology research, expert opinions, and even a social justice piece, all in 800 words.
Why is it cool? Rather than preaching how foolish it is to play the lottery, the author cites resources about why people play the lottery (because we want to be part of the popular group and we love a Cinderella story). It also outlines a cool psychology study from CMU in which people were given $5 and varying constraints on how they could choose to play the lottery (or not). It’s an easy read but your teenage students will have a lot to think about.
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Where is it in the NGPF collection? It’s resource 7 in “Playing the Lottery” in our Financial Pitfalls unit.
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