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The skills and examples in this video help students realize that using personal finance skills will impact their lives today and in the future. Real professionals explain how and why learning personal finance was a key to their current and future success. Topics Included: spending & budgeting, saving & investing, managing debt, financial planning and more.
2) Budgeting
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In this video resource, our young presenters Fiona and Michael take a look at where money comes from, focusing on earnings and expenditure, ways of spending and what happens to the money we spend. Providing clear examples, which relate clearly to the experiences of young people today, they discuss the economy, the difference between a product and a service, and also take a look at governments and taxation. The "Down the Money Memory Lane" segment...
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It may sound improbable for young people to be fascinated by the mathematics of chance and prediction - but this program will almost certainly make it happen! Set in the intriguing world of cards, coins, and dice, the video introduces the basic concepts of probability through colorful, easily understood examples. Viewers learn about complementary events, two-way tables, Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and independent and dependent events. Featuring...
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Teenage students spend most of their earned income on their wardrobes, and young adults spend up to ten percent of their full-time income likewise. This live-action video helps develop the skills needed to make smart decisions when purchasing clothing. It covers the importance of planning for purchases and illustrates how to take a clothing inventory. It also explains how personality, climate, and income influence what clothing we buy. A fashion coordinator...
5) Graphs
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This video describes how to read, interpret, and evaluate data displayed in bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts. Dramatized segments and computer animations illustrate ways to determine the financial advantages of a staggered breeding schedule at a dairy farm; allocate rack space in a CD store, based on regional and local sales figures; and decide whether an athlete's physical characteristics indicate competition as a sprinter or as a distance...
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Scope and content: Radio scripts for the "Ham and Eg" (sometimes spelled Egg) show; the "Ape and Ex" show (sponsored by Apex Oil Co.) and one script entitled "The Malones Never Quit." The first two programs are comedies with characters intended to be African-American, who speak in a caricature of black dialect. The third program is a drama about a district attorney who fights gangsters, his father who is a railroad engineer, and the son's love interest....