I was recently tasked with giving a 20 minute presentation to high school kids about the current financial crisis and I found the incredible video above which explained the concept of a bank.
A few weeks ago I attended a conference at Mission High School called Teachers For Social Justice, or T4SJ. During one of the workshops, entitled "Using Mathematics as a Weapon", I was partnered with a woman who has apparently been organizing conferences on Teaching for Social Justice for a while. I have been struggling with how to convince students that learning math is important to them, and she pointed out the importance of teaching them how to manage money and understand loans and finance to make sure that rich bankers don't take all of their money. So, I entitled my presentation: "The 2008 Financial Crisis, Or How to keep Rich People's Hands Off of Your Money". I didn't end up giving the presentation, but I did make some slides and will post them with some explanation when I get a chance.
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