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Math & Money: Financial Literacy for Kids (Age: Middle School)

Math and Money is a financial literacy program for kids grades 6-8 that teaches money management through budgeting and saving. The program compliments lessons learned in the classroom based on NCTM standards (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics). Program materials include online lessons, printable worksheets and two bonus lessons on graphing and investing.

Access the program on Scholastic’s website here.

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Quest for Money: Budget & Savings Game (Age: Middle/High School)

Quest for Money is a fun game developed by Mint.com and Scholastic that teaches young people to manage their money and achieve financial goals through budgeting and saving. Games are a great way to make learning fun. The lessons taught in this game are extremely valuable to young people and will help build good financial habits.

If you enjoy the game, watch The Quest for Credit, a fun an educational video on credit from Mint.com. Also check out Mint’s Education site for more free resources.

Play the Game!

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Investment Decisions with Financial Theory and Empirical Evidence

Investments is a free online graduate course that helps develop investment decision-making skills with financial theory and empirical evidence. A few of the topics covered are portfolio theory, equilibrium models like APT and CAPM, security price behavior, market efficiency, evaluating performance and behavioral finance. Investments is provided by Sloan School of Management at MIT, available here and licensed under Creative Commons License 3.0. Full citation at bottom of page.

Assignments: Course assignments with their corresponding solutions. Apply your knowledge and take advantage of these assignments.
Assignment 1: Securities, Markets & Capital Market Theory
Assignment 1: Solutions
Assignment 2: Security Analysis
Assignment 3: Futures
Assignment 3: Solutions
Assignment 4: Option Simulation
Assignment 5: Securities, Markets & Capital Market Theory
Assignment 5: Solutions

Readings: Selection of readings that are part of the course, but not provided here. These readings are highly encouraged if they are available to you.

Full Course Citation

Reto Gallati, 15.433 Investments, Spring 2003. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCouseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed April 2010). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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Understanding Investment Risk

Investment Risk is a course from The Open University that gives us a better understanding of risk from an investing perspective. In this course you will:

Define more precisely what we mean by ‘risk’ in a financial context
Consider how investors react to the presence or threat of risk
Develop a method of quantifying risk mathematically
Look at the main factors contributing to investment risk in the real world

Access the course here or use the links below.

Learning outcomes
1 – Risk aversion
1.1 A note about terminology 1.2 Are investors risk-averse?

2 – Quantifying risk
2.1 Looking at each of the possible alternative outcomes 2.2 Calculating returns

3 – Risk factors
3.1 Background 3.2 Maturity 3.3 Liquidity 3.4 Variability of income 3.5 Default or credit risk 3.6 Event risk 3.7 Interest rate risk

4 – Discounted cash flow and the net present value rule
4.1 Introduction 4.2 Discounted cash flow 4.3 Net present value

Course available under this Creative Commons License.

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Real Estate Finance and Investment Course

Real Estate Finance and Investment is a free online course that introduces the basics and processes of commercial real estate finance and investment. This graduate level course is provided by MIT, is available here and is licensed under Creative Commons License 3.0.

Course Introduction: Course overview and objectives.

Lecture Notes: Course notes.

Assignments: Apply your knowledge and take advantage of these assignments.

Exams: Assess your grasp of the course material.

Full Course Citation
Geltner, David, and Tod McGrath. 11.431J Real Estate Finance and Investment, Fall 2006. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 22 Dec, 2010). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA