Teach the Curriculum with Your Classroom Economy
Financial literacy is in the curriculum — and a classroom economy is the most natural way to teach it. Grade-by-grade teaching ideas that connect real standards to the earning, spending, and saving your students already do in ClassCents.
Why Connect Your Economy to Standards?
Your classroom economy already teaches money skills every day — these pages help you name the standards it supports and teach them deliberately.
Financial Literacy First
A classroom economy is financial literacy in practice: students earn salaries, budget, save toward goals, and spend — the exact skills curricula now require.
Teaching Ideas per Standard
Every listed standard pairs with three classroom activities built on real ClassCents features — jobs, the reward store, savings goals, and transaction history.
Authentic Math Practice
Balances, prices, and paydays supply genuine word problems, decimal arithmetic, and data sets — numbers students personally care about.
Justify It to Anyone
Show administrators and families exactly which curriculum expectations your classroom economy supports, grade by grade, with no stretched claims.
Choose Your Curriculum
Grade-by-grade guides for the two curricula our teachers use most.
Ontario, Canada
Available NowOntario's 2020 math curriculum includes a Financial Literacy strand in every grade — teach it through your classroom economy.
Grade Levels
Grades 1–8
Subject Areas
Common Core
Available NowMoney word problems, decimal operations, expressions, and statistics — taught with the numbers your class economy generates.
Grade Levels
Grades 1–8
Subject Areas
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