FINANCIAL LITERACY
Here are some projects where you can use coding to help students practice and better understand concepts found in the Financial Literacy strand. The examples here are finished projects. Take out the code that you want your students to do, and then share it with them so that they can Remix it and finish it themselves, hopefully making it more interesting and original.
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Click the thumbnails below to get a preview of each project. You will need to go on the Scratch site to be able to see the code.
Use this project to have students create a program to calculate how much interest will be added onto a credit card loan.
Math Concepts: multiplying percentages, interest
Coding Concepts: Loops, Conditionals, Variables, Lists
Use this project to have students create a program to compare the unit rates of something they are buying.
Math Concepts: Unit Rates
Coding Concepts: Conditionals
Use this project to have students create a program to compare if a discount of a set dollar amount, or a percentage is better.
Math Concepts: multiplying percentages
Coding Concepts: Variables, Broadcasting
Use this project to have students create a program to calculate the final total of a purchase after discount and tax.
Math Concepts: multiplying percentages
Coding Concepts: Conditionals, Variables
Use this project to have students create a program to calculate the sales tax of a purchase in dollars.
Math Concepts: multiplying by percentages
Coding Concepts: Loops, Variables