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Managing Your Personal Finances, 8th Student Edition, 8th Edition
Overview
Help your students learn about their role as a citizen, student, family member, consumer and active participant in the business world while teaching them various financial responsibilities with Connor's MANAGING YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES, 8TH ED. This comprehensive text covers key personal finance topics such as managing careers, money, credit, financial decision-making and much more. Students discover ways to maximize their earning potential, develop strategies for managing resources, explore skills for using credit wisely and gain insight into the different ways of investing money in a constantly evolving financial landscape. Written specifically for high school students, special sections in each chapter hold students' interest by focusing on current trends and issues consumers face in the marketplace, as well as using real-life examples that allow students to see themselves in the text.
- MindTap® personalizes the online experience with relevant assignments that guide students to analyze, apply and improve critical thinking, allowing teachers to measure skills and outcomes with ease.
- Content is validated through careful alignment to the National Jump$tart and Financial Literacy Precision Exam Standards objectives.
- Learning objectives serve as the foundation of the lessons, appearing at the introduction, lesson headings and in the end-of-lesson and end-of-chapter assessments, aligning content to support learning.
- New Stock Market Simulation lets students practice basic investing tasks, such as reading a stock market table, making investment choices and computing gains and losses.
- Each lesson has an Essential Question that frames the lesson's main idea. An answer to the question appears at the end of the lesson to reinforce this main idea and provide a learning opportunity for students.
- Consider This …: Each chapter opens with a profile of a fictional person whose story students follow throughout the chapter, teaching students key financial concepts related to the content in the chapter.
- Issues in Your World: These issues are integrated throughout the chapters, focusing on current financial issues, both personal and global, that are relevant to students and their lives.
- Updated Content: Information about social media, health care, online banking and identity theft is updated and current.
- Sharpen Your Employability Skills: Students will be prepared for college and a career by developing skills crucial to success in the workplace and reaching their long-term goals.
- Planning a Career In: Students are encouraged to explore careers and start developing long-term goals in the context of personal finance.
- Chapter and Unit Projects: Projects appear both at the end of each chapter and unit, enabling students to authentically practice problem-solving and decision-making skills as they apply finance concepts to real-life situations.
- Unit Profiles: A well-known figure from our society who has experienced financial success is highlighted in a Unit Profile, revealing to students how an individual can achieve success through the application of the financial concepts presented in the unit.
- Winning Edge: Activities in each chapter prepare students for BPA, DECA and FBLA competitive events
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