Your Money, Your Math

A personal finance journey from middle school ratios to Grade 12 probability and statistics. Real life examples in one connected mathematical story. What they don't teach you in Middle and High school! How to manage your personal finances, how to budget, how to build an emergency fund and how to protect yourself with smart insurance. 

• What’s Inside…

  • A step by step explanation of how with only $40 a week in 7th or 8th, you can start realizing your big dreams: a used car, college, and financial independence. A breakdown of how you can use ratios and proportions to plan monthly spending, how to use percentages and recurrences to understand credit card interest, how to use equations and functions to compare loan payments, how to use exponential growth to plan for rising prices, how to use probability and spread to describe investment risk, and hot use piecewise functions and expected value to compare deductibles.

This "Your Money, Your Math" Digital eBook Is for You If...

• You are a middle, high school student, or even a college freshman who wants to understand how Middle and High School's Ratios, proportions, slope, exponential functions, probability, and statistics help you budget, build your personal finances, and achieve financial freedom.
• You are a parent who wants to reassure their kids that the Math they are learning in Middle and High School is the building blocks to realizing their goals: a used car, a good credit score, college and financial independence. 
• You are a teacher or tutor who wants ready-to-use examples that demonstrate how Middle and High School's math concepts connect together like a puzzle's tabs and blanks as they teach about real life financial issues, how to tackle them and how to achieve financial independence. 
• You want to make math more meaningful and motivating by solving real-life problems that show how algebra, statistics, probability and critical thinking are used in building the financial futures of successful students. 
• You enjoy learning through real-world applications rather than memorizing formulas, and want to build confidence by seeing mathematics in action through practical, easy-to-follow examples. For you, Middle school math is not small math. It is the structural vocabulary of the physical universe, the digital world, and your own financial independence.