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Anonymous
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Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 45%-60%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? Having hands on material is always great for our students.
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? No standout, but they did enjoy the materials.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? Just getting my students to think about the points in the kit.
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
“Awesome kit for our special education class. We teach functional math and life skills after school and this was an awesome addition to this unit.”
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Posted 1 week ago
Vicky P
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 45%-60%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? video clips and puzzles. different to my usual teaching methods. something new for my students
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? nil
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? nil
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? nil
“a good range of activities and interesting clips to include in the teaching and learning.”
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 60%-75%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? Letters from the future
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? Students loved the logic puzzles
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? Students asking great questions about tax, kiwi saver, financial literacy
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? Students still find it difficult to take it out of theory and into real life. I taught this to whānau class students (years 9-13) and the older students had better conceptual understanding.
“Students loved the puzzles and exploring ideas with this resource! Beautifully presented and engaging kit that is perfect for Social Studies, Whānau Classes, integrated Year 9 classes etc.”
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 15%-30%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? I really didn't. But if I had to pick someone it would be knowing what aspects to include.I wouldn't have thought to teach things like kiwisaver when looking at finincial literacy
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? No stand out moments - but I didn't change my own kiwisaver!
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? No
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
How did the activity help students make connections between circuit theory and real-world applications? The activities were too hard for my students
“I found the process overwhelming as an adult trying to deliver it- having instructions online made it much harder than say a booklet would have been. Most of it went completely over the head of my year 10/11 learning support classes (Year 8ish ability)”
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Dave E
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Incentivized
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? >75%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The tactile resources and sheets which were engaging and well made.
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? Students watching the video on compount interest and the incredible difference due to the compound interest for Ana even though they put the same amount in. That do light up students eyes.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? They have increased and become more informed. Especially as we link to other resources and settings
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
“This kit has been excellent to support our teaching of financial capability in Year 9 and 10. We use it along with other resources like Banqer to help engage students in practical real world scenarios.”
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Posted 1 month ago
Elizabeth H
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 60%-75%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The decision making sheet and debt and investment cards
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? Most of our students had no idea about any of this (not part of many of their worlds). This kit opens their minds to possibilities and they were talking about when they own a home, have mortgages etc...
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? From zero conversations/input/understanding to rich conversations and sharing of ideas and suggestions
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
“Ordered this kit along with 'Part of Something Bigger' which was 'bigger' and better than I expected so did not use the 'Dear 13 Year Old Me' kit until last term. This kit was also a great kit. so important that students have some idea of all these concepts before they need them.”
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Posted 2 months ago
Anna C
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? <15%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? The letter template
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? The letters were initially met with high engagement - put this was quickly dampened down by the level and quantity of text.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? We celebrated not doing certain aspects as they were too challenging and changing to other activities.
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
“The ideas in the kit are great. However the amount of reading made the work unachievable for a large proportion of our learners.”
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Posted 2 months ago
Jaki L
Verified Reviewer
Understanding compound interest (what it is and how it works) is a big part of this kit. What percentage of your students demonstrated a clear understanding of the power of compound interest by the end of the learning? 60%-75%
How easy did your students find the Sorted Calculators to use?
Difficult
Easy enough
Very easy
Which part/s of the kit did you find the most useful in supporting you to teach financial literacy and why? Having a character with multiple resources related to them was very beneficial to base learning around
How would you rate the change in your own understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt, prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
Can you share any standout moments or student reactions while using the kit? As student wanted to know how much he could save and by directing him to the sorted calculator we had used he was able to use the sorted calculator on savings to work out their own savings over different time frames, this included looking up interest rates at a bank.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? n/a
How would you rate the change in your students understanding of compound interest, KiwiSaver and debt prior to engaging with this kit?
No change
Understand some more
Understand a lot more
How useful would you say the kit was at extending students overall financial literacy?
Completely useless
Somewhat useful
Extremely useful
“Dear 13 Year Old Me enabled students to develop their understanding of savings, debt and Kiwisaver in a scenario that they were able to relate to and could develop an understanding of the life story for the character.”
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Posted 2 months ago
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