Financial Wizard

Intuit’s Mint.com and Scholastic have joined together to offer a free online programme to teach finance to school students.

On this lesson  a financial wizard will help impart the importance of saving money. Through a hypothetical job-based comprehension exercise, key concepts discussed in Lesson 1 will include income, taxes, and costs. You can download the reading text, comprehension questions and task here.

All in all the tasks put our financial skills to the tests while helping us with our reading comprehension abilities.

You can read the answers to the tasks here.

The follow-up to the story (part 2) can be found here together with the answers.

H/T to Free Technology for Teachers.