Are you smarter than a 5th Grader...

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UTfball68

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So the local school system asked me to present/discuss economics and finance to the elementary schools. I'm not sure why I said yes...but I did. Not sure how I got picked either, outside of being an overgrown samsquanch with the mentality of a 4 year old. I was damn near bored to tears with my economics and finance classes in college. I can provide and discuss data and analytics until the cows come home...but I'm a god awful 'teacher'. So I appeal to ye wise ones of NC4x4, any ideas on how to make the discussion topics engaging and fun for 7-10 year olds??? Figure I'd break it up in micro and macro economics as well as personal and business finance.
 
Do some hands on demonstrations with real money. Perhaps put together a product using maybe 3 components that they buy ,assemble, and sell. Let them see profit ,loss , overhead, labor.
 
moldman05 said:
Do some hands on demonstrations with real money. Perhaps put together a product using maybe 3 components that they buy ,assemble, and sell. Let them see profit ,loss , overhead, labor.
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That's actually a terrific idea, I can take some of our products and do a start to finish product demonstration to the free market, supply and demand, etc.
 
Keep it simple. I taught kids every year. Specifically, 8th grade. Some are very sharp but some are...meh. You'll be talking to 1st thru 3rd grade. Keep to the basics and tell them to be smart about savings.
 
This little gem has been stored among my trivia for years. It just might give you some ideas..... :D


I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.

She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"

She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."

Her parents beamed with pride.

"Wow... what a worthy goal," I told her. "But, you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, then you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her parents still aren't speaking to me!
 
shawn said:
Then take half and tell her it's taxes.
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Whoa now, he's below the poverty line, so no taxes, and doesn't the govco match his earnings 10:1 with Obamaphone minutes?
 
rockcity said:
Take half their lunch and explain that’s how taxes work.
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