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It’s never too early to learn how to earn and spend your earnings wisely! This issue scores with kid friendly ideas to launch young entrepreneurs on their way to a financially secure future. Safe and practical kid jobs—from pet care to yard clean up to gift-wrapping services—reinforce responsibility, commitment, integrity and the reward that comes from being a self-starter. Math skills take on new meaning when applied to calculating hourly rates and counting up earnings. Thinking about necessary steps to advertise, market, grow clients and provide customer support train students to develop and manage a business plan. Before you know it, a new enterprise is born!
In this issue students will:
- Practice critical thinking about a business
- Participate in oral discourse
- Use the newspaper to identify local businesses
- Solve consumer math puzzlers
- Create a newspaper advertisement for a business
- Write about a dream job
- Calculate sums counting coins of different values
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