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Life of Fred: Financial Choices
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029237
ISBN
9781937032180
Grade 10-AD
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Low Teacher Involvement
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Conceptual/Topical
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Description
Personal finances from the brilliant mind of America's favorite college professor, six-year-old Fred Gauss! Teaching teens the importance of financial responsibility, this course provides thirty-four lessons covering vital topics like needs vs. wants, assets and liabilities, budgeting, net worth, credit cards/debt, simple and compound interests, savings, education, investments/stocks, real estate, retirement, owning your own business, insurance, taxes, constitutional limits, and much more. Complex financial equations are simplified with practical explanations, along with Your Turn to Play chapter questions providing students practice to reinforce important concepts. Answers included. Whether your students have previously fallen in love with the Life of Fred (LOF) math courses or you are new to Fred, this course provides a witty, yet educational story to teach the inherent responsibilities we have as consumers and producers in today's society. HC. 176 pgs. ~Deanne
Publisher's Description of Life of Fred: Financial Choices
If you want to wear clothes or eat or live indoors, this book may help you accomplish those goals.
In this book you will
find:
• Three reasons to use a credit card
• The ultimate use of money
• The five places to invest
• How to retire in 24 years (Nothing financial is 100% certain–but this comes
close.)
• Five suggestions for choosing a good spouse
• Insurance–what to buy and what not to buy
• Taxes–the seven categories
• Personal habits that will help make you successful
• Real estate–what to buy and when to buy
• Stocks, bonds, mortgages, REITS, certificates of deposit, mutual funds
• How Kingie made his fortune.
This book is designed for 10th grade through adults.
Details
| Product Format: | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 10-AD |
| Brand: | Polka Dot Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781937032180 |
| Length in Inches: | 10.5 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.25 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.25 |
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Reviews
4 Ratings
4 Reviews
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 10, 2023
Fantastic; always love Life of Fred!
Rated 5 out of 5
Mar 11, 2019
Great!
If you like Fred, you will like this course. Very interesting and informative.
Rated 5 out of 5
Aug 26, 2018
Wonderful!
This is a wonderfully entertaining way to teach students about financial decisions. It is my kids favorite thing we read each day and they love figuring out the answers at the end of each chapter.
Rated 5 out of 5
Jul 14, 2016
Financial genius
I am really impressed with the life of fred personal finance book. My grandson is sixteen and is going to get a lot of good straightforward wholesome information while enjoying Fred's financial journey. This book is truely wonderful. A definite must read for all going people comming up in our world. Thisinformation is not taught in schools today
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Why did you choose this?
Is this worth one full high school credit?
I combined it with Dave Ramsey’s Personal Finance High School course for a credit I called “ Personal Finance and Economics”. I personally felt that LOF Financial Choices wasn’t enough for a full credit. But it’s your school, your student. In most states that determination is up to you. With lots of discussions and fleshing out you could call it a credit.
Semester long??
There are 34, six-page lessons so the course would most likely be used for a semester course although you could extend it over a full year.
Looking for a straight forward personal finance course. I'm excited to find this and try it out with my high school junior.
I plan to use this as one part of our state's financial literacy requirement for my high schooler.
It looks like a fun way to tackle a tough topic
My boys love Life of Fred. We thought this would be a fun way to go through Finances as an extracurricular class.