It all adds up!

In lieu of a burgeoning finiancial crisis, (if you really consider it a crisis, and not just a media ratings driver) it seems sensible that training directed at financial and money management would be piggybacking this "crisis".The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students and their teachers. They have actually created an interactive learning game (sans poor graphics) that is targeted at teens to help them do basic personal finance tasks, such as understanding credit, interest rates, how to live on a budget, etc.

It's called "it all adds up" and it's a serioes of games and simulations geared with a pedialogical approach to teaching personal finance.

After playing a few of these games, it's pretty clear that these games are not just beneficial for teenagers. in fact, if more people understood some of these basic concepts, we probably could have avoided the housing crash, IMHO.

It's actually practice on basic common sense practices that get lost in the shuffle a lot of the time. The only downside is the games are hardly but free, whoever created them perhaps rushed a little bit too much putting this stuff together, or maybe they just didn't have a budget. it's hard to say. Still, it's worth a run through if you still think you can afford that BMW. :)

It All Adds UP!

http://www.italladdsup.org/

http://www.ncee.net/