January 2024 Edition


Provide your child with practical math skills for everyday use with LIFEPAC Consumer Math for grades 11-12! Topics taught include family finances, taxes, insurance, investments, travel, and a basic math review. Ten easy-to-follow worktexts include step-by-step instructions to build student comprehension.

Teaching self-discipline, LIFEPAC allows your child to learn independently with confidence, and motivating worktexts come as ten individual booklets so your child won't be intimidated by a large textbook. Don't wait any longer. Give your high schooler a firm foundation for building personal finance skills and order LIFEPAC Consumer Math from Alpha Omega Publications today.

This elective is appropriate for students who have completed Algebra I and Geometry.

In this course, students will study:

• Personal financial planning
• Money management
• Financial institutions
• Saving and investing
• Consumer credit basics
• Consumer lending basics
• Smart consumer practices
• Life and health insurance
• Responsibility and financial planning

Course Objectives
Upon successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

• Describe components of a financial plan, including establishing a budget.
• Analyze how career choice, education, and skills affect income.
• Set financial goals.
• Describe strategies for spending wisely.
• Compare tools, services, and resources of financial institutions.
• Identify financial risks and strategies to minimize them.
• Describe key features of different types of savings and investment accounts.
• Understand how credit scores are developed.
• Define key financial terms associated with credit cards.
• Understand mortgage lending processes.
• Compare renting vs. buying benefits and disadvantages.
• Recognize their rights as a consumer.
• Recognize options for life and health insurance.
• Identify other types of insurance.
• Use research and evaluation strategies to make financial decisions.

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