The Game of Life: Financial Literacy Project

Amazing end of the year activity!

Fill weeks after testing with this fun and engaging 8-day project that allows students to experience how math can benefit them in the real world!
This project includes 8 valuable tasks that allow students to explore careers and gain an understanding of real-world expenses. It includes detailed instructions for each slide as well as completed examples that clearly demonstrate expectations. Accommodations such as sentence frames are also provided within this project so you do not have to put in additional efforts to ensure it is appropriate for ELL and students with IEPs.

In this project, students will:
-Create a vision board while imagining what they see in their future
-Explore careers and the salaries that are paired with them

-Understand how salaries are impacted by taxes by comparing their gross income and take home salary

-Calculate monthly expenses they can afford based on their salary

-Find property to buy/rent that fits within 30% of their gross income
-Find a vehicle to lease/own that fits within 10% of their take home income
-Explore additional living expenses and calculate net income

-Reflect on net income and what should be done with additional funds
-Reflect on the project and how it helped to prepare them for the real world

A detailed rubric is also included to help make grading easy and allow students to understand scores.