Every lesson comes with resources ranging from curriculum guide, discussion guide, glossary, standards alignment, and teacher outline, to the lesson plans and activities. I decided to first look at the unit on data science.
This data science exploration has two sections. The first looks at data science in the banking industry while the second section provides a banking fraud simulation so students can apply what they learned. There is audio to accompany all work and an easily accessible glossary so students can look up meanings. The scenario is that the head of the data science section of the bank is looking to hire additional people and then goes on to explain what it is via the use of four cards. Each card represents either collecting and cleaning data, visualizing data, analyzing the data, and reporting on the data.
Then it takes time to explain to the students what the data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer do before going into explaining how data scientists determine things and how data science is used in banking. Students are asked to interpret and make suggestions on certain things related to loan risk but at the end, they get to apply what they learned to the lab which is the second part. As stated earlier, this has everything needed to teach the unit to students.
As far as I can tell, the interactive online things on the Everfi site are used in the lessons along with possible reading assignments or additional worksheets on different parts of the unit. In addition, there are online assessments designed for the students to complete but until they get the correct answers they cannot move on. However, if they don't know the answer, they will get frustrated if they keep trying to guess the answer. Sometimes the information in the online part of the lesson does not have enough information but it does have an automatic audio which means students who don't read well have a way of keeping up.
Although much of what I've seen is based more on concepts than actual mathematical equations, it is nicely done and there are assessments spread throughout the units. Now for the fiscal literacy unit, it looks at banking, budgeting, consumer skills, credit and debit, financing a higher education, income and employment, and insurance. All topics are extremely important to a student's survival once they leave home.
Although, this is not a straight math class, it is a good financial site with excellent recourses. I know that math teachers often end up teaching financial or data science classes and this site provides materials that could easily be used in either class. Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear. Have a great day.
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