Sep 27, 2020

Question of the Day: How much money do consumers spend on the internet every 60 seconds?

Answer: $1 million

Questions:

  • Now that you know how much is spent in a minute on the internet, calculate how much is spent in...
    • an hour,
    • a day,
    • a month, and
    • a year. 
  • How many of the activities in the visual do you engage with on the internet? 
  • What impact do you think that Covid-19 has had on shopping on the internet? Do you think this will be a temporary or permanent shift?

Here's the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.

Behind the numbers (from Visual Capitalist): 

In 2020, an unfathomable amount of digital activity is occurring at any given moment. This ongoing explosion in activity is the aggregate output of 4.5 billion internet users today, a number that’s projected to increase even further in coming years.

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About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.

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