General resources
PurpleMath: an online algebra tutorial (ranging from beginning to advanced, to trig!)
Khan Academy: Video math tutorials on EVERY TOPIC you can imagine!!!
Math Gal\’s math videos: great short videos to review old topics or learn new ones!
Accelerated Math Student Logon
Finance project resources
**This is by no means a complete list, just something to get you started!
All topics
http://www.nytimes.com (New York Times online)
http://online.wsj.com/home-page (Wall Street Journal online)
http://money.cnn.com/ (CNN Money)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ (NPR’s Planet Money Blog – contains articles and podcasts!)
Credit crisis
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=subprime%20lending&st=cse (NY Times primer)
Homes & Mortgages
http://www.mortgage101.com/ (includes an online mortgage calculator for local rates)
http://stlouisfed.org/education_resources/AWordontheEconomy/player.html (a great PowerPoint presentation designed for high school students explaining subprime mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, and the “housing bubble”)
Stocks and bonds
http://www.google.com/finance (Google Finance)
Inflation
http://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/ (Investopedia’s primer on inflation)
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/EMAT6680.Folders/Barron/Write-ups/Assignment%2012/write-up12barron.html (an activity from the Univ. of Georgia; contains a nice little explanation of inflation at the end)
http://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp (Investopedia’s primer on inflation)
Paying for college
http://www.nasfaa.org/Home.asp (Nat’l Ass’n of Student Financial Aid Administrators – contains a wealth of information!)
http://www.wellsfargoadvantagefunds.com/wfweb/wf/college/aid/formula.jsp (Understanding the financial aid formula)
http://www.finaid.org/ (Cesar-recommended guide to financial aid!)
International currencies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8394987.stm (N. Korea’s recent currency devaluation – fascinating!)
http://money.howstuffworks.com/exchange-rate.htm (An introduction to exchange rates)
“The Fed” (The Federal Reserve)
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/federalreserve/monetary/index.html
National debt
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ (an AWESOME visual!)
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ (tons of articles and a running clock!)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tentrillion/view/ (a PBS Frontline program about the national debt)
Finance resources
Interview with Elizabeth Warren on the credit industry
Finance project resources
Ms. Fran\’s DP (for copies of homework and class notes!)
