The following are textbook based curriculums in economics and personal finance. This list is for informational purposes and should not be taken as an endorsement of any particular curriculum as I have not used all of these options.
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Abeka
Business Mathematics
Grade level: 10-12
Publisher’s Description:
Give your child the tools to see if running a business is something that interests him. Business Mathematics gives the basic principles of how to manage a business, investments, banking, and income taxes. This work-text comes complete with exercises to help your child understand concepts such as accounts receivable and payable, bookkeeping, the New York Stock Exchange, corporate bonds, and small business loans. With detailed descriptions, examples, and ample practice problems, your child could be on his way to becoming a business owner. Non-consumable textbook.
Consumer Mathematics
Grade level: 10-12
Publisher’s Description:
Bridge the gap between just learning mathematical procedures and using them in everyday situations with the practical exercises of Consumer Mathematics. This textbook covers concepts such as buying, insuring, and maintaining a car; social security tax; creating and balancing a budget; renting a home; buying food and clothing; tax forms; and affording leisure time. These principles will give your child sound, Biblical views for managing his own money. Use the model problems and practice exercises to help your child understand the value of money and how to use it wisely. Non-consumable textbook.
Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective
Grade level: 11-12
Publisher’s Description:
Study the choices that societies make regarding the production, distribution, and consumption of goods with Economics: Work and Prosperity.
This one-semester course explains the economic principles of production, supply and demand, competition, inflation, and saving. Show the link between economic freedom and political and individual freedom by encouraging free-enterprise capitalism and moral responsibility with money.
With questions to consider, chapter reviews, bold terms, and a glossary, give your child principles that will help him make informed money-management decisions.
Economics Supplement with Personal Financial Literacy
Grade level: 11-12
Publisher’s Description:
Enrich your teen with practical financial lessons from this book that is designed to supplement Economics: Work and Prosperity (sold separately). Based on data taken from natural microeconomics applications and macroeconomics principles, this book covers many personal financial topics to better prepare students for the life-choices that lie ahead of them.
Some of the topics include: cost and benefits of buying a new vs. used car, assessing the future benefits of a college education, using credit cards wisely, financing the purchase of a home, and many more real-life topics! Equip your teen with moral economics principles with this supplement and prepare them for a bright future!
BJU Press
Consumer Math
Grade level: 10-12
Publisher’s Description:
Consumer Math helps students develop the knowledge and skills they need to successfully handle their personal finances. Using math as a consumer is inescapable. From buying food and clothing to taking out loans for cars and houses, Consumer Math prepares students for making real-world financial decisions. This course teaches students how to be good stewards of the resources God has given them through basic math and principles for handling money students and an understanding of scriptural teaching about money.
Economics
Grade level: 12
Publisher’s Description:
Economics introduces fundamental economic principles, including free-market ideals, supply and demand, and productivity, while applying these concepts to personal finance. It integrates a biblical perspective on stewardship, guiding students through budgeting, credit management, saving, and planning. Covering various economic topics such as banking, inflation, and unemployment, the course aims to prepare high school students to understand and manage personal, household, and government finances from a biblical worldview as they approach adulthood.
Demme Learning
Stewardship
Grade level: 10-12
Publisher’s Description:
Stewardship, 2nd Edition, is a personal finance curriculum taught from a biblical perspective. With Steve Demme’s signature humility, humor, and sharp math skills, practical math instruction is combined with Biblical principles of finance and discipleship material. This edition is updated with current topics relevant to young people aged 15 and older, who are beginning to explore more independent financial opportunities and responsibilities.
Evan-Moor
Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities
Grade level: 1-8
Publisher’s Description:
Help students learn about money with real-world math activities, hands-on projects, and reproducible play money. Students explore real-life choices related to earning money at a job, making and following a budget, buying things, paying bills, earning money at a job, saving for retirement, and more.
Financial Literacy and Life Skills for Kids
Grade level: 2-8
Publisher’s Description:
Teach kids about money and financial concepts with lessons and activities that help them form their own financial identities! Financial Literacy and Life Skills for Kids includes topics such as spending, saving, using banks, credit cards, etc. The books are colorful, include stories, and practical examples.
Notgrass
Exploring Economics
Grade level: 12
Publisher’s Description:
Exploring Economics is a one-semester course centered in God’s Word that equips your student to better understand what economics is and how it affects our lives. Using Exploring Economics as designed provides one half-year of high school credit in economics and one half-year of credit in English (literature and composition). This curriculum features:
- Engaging lessons with colorful photographs and historic illustrations
- Primary source documents offering perspectives from the past and present
- Weekly project ideas