Jan 06, 2020

TEACHER TIP - CALCULATE: Shopping With Interest

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Amanda Volz brings you a Teacher Tip video on the activity CALCULATE: Shopping With Interest. This activity has students use an online credit card calculator to work through a variety of credit card debt scenarios and investigate the impact of interest on the cost of purchases. In this video, Amanda provides some tips and tricks on how you can successfully implement this activity in your classroom. 

⟶ We have three excellent lessons from our Types of Credit Unit that would work well with this activity: How Credit Cards Work, Young People & Credit Cards, and Select a Credit Card.



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Amanda Volz

Amanda joins the NGPF Team with over 20 years of experience teaching personal finance. During that time, she led her students to hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships, won multiple awards, and most importantly, impacted the financial lives of thousands of high school students. Amanda prides herself on being an educational leader and is constantly looking for innovative ways to make the classroom relevant, rigorous, and fun. She is a passionate advocate for financial education and has been a long-time member of the NGPF community. Fun fact - Amanda was NGPF’s first teacher account! When Amanda isn’t working, she enjoys cooking, gardening, and traveling with her husband and two children.

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