November is Financial Literacy Month

Do you need it, or do you want it? That’s an important question to ask before buying anything. This activity is designed to teach kids how to prioritize their needs and wants, and how to make informed choices when shopping.

Explore Canadian money with young learners using our printable worksheets.

Introduce your Grade 2 students to counting money and forming change combinations. Use these four sets of money math activities individually or in the order listed in this lesson.

Take a trade mission to planet Plutopia to discover why trading without a common currency is hard.

Practise counting and exchanging coins and bank notes with our printable play money.

Practice saving money with this fun piggy bank craft.

Practice making financial decisions by buying clothing and accessories for avatar puppets.

Make grocery shopping an economic lesson by helping your kids prepare a meal plan, and shop for ingredients based on a budget.

Use this activity sheet to practice converting exchange rates.

All about inflation: what it is, what it means and how it's measured. Students will learn how the consumer price index is calculated and create their own student price index to measure the prices that matter most to them.

Use hands-on activities to explore comparative advantage, opportunity cost and specialization. Students will learn how these key economic concepts help countries benefit from trade.

The economies in modern, complex video games can teach gamers a lot about decision making and financial literacy.

There might be only a handful of basic game formats, but there is an infinity of variations—a surprising number of which require the skills we need to manage our daily economic lives.