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Best of 2024: Top Blog Posts
Dec 22, 2024 - More than 12,000 teachers rely on the NGPF Blog Digest to stay current on all things personal finance, get lesson ideas and, of course, receive Questions of the Day and weekly Interactives and FinCap Fridays. Here are the top 10 most visited this year. Top Blog Posts of 2024 (with the year the post first appeared) Interactive Monday: Can you draw these logos from memory? (2020) Useful Personal Finance Movies and Documentaries with Worksheets (2021) Question of the Day: What...
Best of 2024: Most Visited Unit Pages
Dec 22, 2024 - The primary way most teachers find the best NGPF resources for class is by visiting the unit pages. Which ones did they come back to again and again? Unit pages allow you to see all NGPF resources on a given topic (unit) on one page. You can find lessons as well as activities, projects, FinCap Fridays, Questions of the Day, case studies, and math activities on these unit pages. Here are the top five unit pages visited in 2024 (indicates rankings in 2023): Banking (#1) Budgeting (#2)...
Curriculum Announcement: Upcoming Taxes Revamp
Dec 19, 2024 - NGPF’s Curriculum Team is updating our Taxes activities! We’re streamlining them with a focus on concision and student engagement. Plus, we’re doing annual updates to the most recent tax information available. What’s Getting Revamped? You'll see changes across Activities, Data Crunches, and Math Activities in the Taxes Unit over the next few weeks. Annual Taxes Updates We are updating our curriculum to have the most recent tax information available. That...
FinCap Friday: Top Finance Stories of 2024
Dec 19, 2024 - In 2024, the financial landscape saw significant changes, from the Fed's interest rate cuts, and Bitcoin skyrocketing past $100,000, to consumer debt hitting record high levels. Despite the fluctuations, financial experts agree that a disciplined, long-term financial plan and investment strategy is far more effective than reacting to current events in the short term. Learn more in this week's FinCap Friday episode below: Click here to access the Kahoot quiz and discussion prompt. If...
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