Steve Navra to run a Financial Education Course for Kids?

[Aceyducey]

hmmm - I found commerce very vaulable at school

It taught a lot of the underlying structural stuff on supply & demand, money supply, role of interest rates & fiscal tools.

It provided the basis for most of my further understanding of the area.

And it was very motivational at the time - particularly when we went out creating micro businesses to learn hands on.

Of course that was 20 years ago.....

Cheers,

Aceyducey

 

[Bear1964]

My son who is currently in 2nd year high school, in year 5 at primary school, he did mock Internet share trading as a class activity. They were given a certain amount of money to start off with and in groups over a 6 month period they had to trade in mock shares from the internet and see how much money the had at the end of the 6 month period.

Regards Bear

 

[geoffw]

Out of interest- how much money did they have at the end of six months? Did it give him anything of value?

 

[Bear1964]

To be honest i cant remember exactly how much. However my sons group did come top of the class and make the most money , some lost it all. It did teach him trading skills, and show him that money can be made with money if done carefully.

Regards Bear

 

[Teresa]

Acey ducey,
Seems I may have been a bit hasty with my advise, and maybe it is one of those subjects that depend highly on the teacher to add a bit of interest.

Teresa

 

[Jas]

bit like all subjects really...

Jas

 

[geoffw]

bit like all subjects really...

Not only the subjects- also what you're subjected to.