Making personal finance decisions.

Abstract

The Minnesota Council on Economic Education (MCEE) is pleased to partner with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to bring you this curriculum. MCEE thanks Curt Anderson, Professor Emeritus and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teacher of Economics and former Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, for creating these lessons. Making Personal Finance Decisions was many years in the making, and we’re excited to bring it to you in this new format. MCEE also thanks the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis for partnering with us on this project, allowing more teachers to have access to this valuable resource. The lessons are grounded in economic concepts and decisionmaking, with core principles that have students identifying and evaluating options and considering trade-offs and opportunity costs in personal finance actions. And, as in all curriculum developed by MCEE and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the lessons are highly interactive, teaching personal finance concepts through simulations and hands-on activities. We hope you find the curriculum as valuable as we do in teaching personal finance concepts that students need to succeed in today’s complex economy.