Extreme Economics: Teaching Children and Teenagers about Money

by Keen J. Babbage

Overview

What Financial future awaits the current generation of children and teenagers in the United States? Our children and teenagers did not cause the financial problems that confront the nation and impacts their families, but they will pay part of the price for these financial problems. What should children and teenagers know about personal finance? How can sound financial principles and money management be taught to these students? Extreme Economics identifies, through current research, what children and teenagers need to know about managing funds. It shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about money management in fascinating and meaningful ways. Extreme Economics is not filled with complicated or confusing charts, graphs, and terminology. It is readable and immediately applicable. As education continues to advance, the school curriculum might consist of reading, writing, math, and economics and finance. This book is an important step to ensuring a solid base in this emerging area.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607092896
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	09/15/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Keen J. Babbage has twenty-five years of experience as a teacher and administrator in middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. He is the author of author of numerous books including 911: The School Administrator's Guide to Crisis Management (1996), Extreme Teaching (2002), Results-Driven Teaching: Teach So Well That Every Student Learns (2006) and What Only Teachers Know About Education (2008).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Second Edition
Chapter 2 How to Learn about Money
Chapter 3 Student Life Experience as a Powerful Classroom Resource
Chapter 4 How Student Life Experience Connects with What Students Need to Learn
Chapter 5 How to Fully Apply Student Life Experience to Achieve Mastery
Chapter 6 Student Conversations, Hobbies, Daily Lives: More Resources for Any Teacher who Listens and Notices
Chapter 7 A Day in the Economic Life of an Elementary School Student
Chapter 8 A Day in the Economic Life of a Middle School Student
Chapter 9 A Day in the Economic Life of a High School Student
Chapter 10 A Visit to a Middle School Extreme Economics Class
Chapter 11 Save, Save More, Keep Saving

Editorial Reviews

In this thoughtful and practical update to Extreme Economics, Keen Babbage offers a crucial message of hope for teachers and families alike: All children can learn how to budget, save, and invest for the future through fun and meaningful activities that can be reinforced at home and school. 'Money management mastery is not magical or mysterious,' Babbage writes. Instilling financial sense in the next generation will depend on the willingness of today's generation to 'make the time' to teach children how to be smart about money.

Holly Holland

Babbage has the right book at the right time. We are a point in history where mastery of personal finance will be the dividing line between rich and poor in the United States and play a key part in how the United States competes in a global economy.

Based on research, testing and a lot of common sense, Dr. Babbage's book is an outstanding guide for students, teachers and parents. It is filled with wisdom but easy to read. I own a copy and highly recommend that you get one too.

Times-Tribune, October 20, 2009 - Don McNay