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Jason M
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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? 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? My year 10's struggled and found what we were asking overwhelming and complicated. They needed a more simplified introduction to these concepts.
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? .
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? Most of my year 10's don't have any basics and are not forthcoming in contributing. The more intellectual did also found the report difficult. Might be better for year 11 student's and have a simplified version for year 10's?
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
“I was teaching year 10's and the class is called Financial Capability. It was too much to provide each group with a different character. Since I had never tried this before, it would have been a lot simplier if I just gave every group the same synario. The Calculations that were provided in the example didn't help the student's. They were not able to complete these tasks on their own. More scaffolding for each and every tool was necessary. Since these students were year 10, some of these tasks needed to be simplified.”
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Posted 1 year 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? the kiwisaver aspect of the different types and rates and the impact of compund interest on their savings
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? when they understood the impact of compund interest and starting early
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? the students where more confident with making decisions around kiwisaver and there future and where talking about it at home
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 students like working on the kiwisaver site but did not like the characters so much. They did learn a lot about the different types and rates of kiwisaver and how different decisions could effect the amount that they would get at retirement”
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Posted 1 year 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? 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? The letters from the future and things that went with them were really cool and helped engage students in the learning.
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? There was a real curiousity when they first opened the letters.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? The scenarios gave us useful examples to explore.
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 looked really good when I first started using it, and the idea behind it was really good, but I found it didn't work that well for my students. The hook was great, they enjoyed reading the letters and exploring the characters, but the templates for them to fill in were a bit confusing. In the end we got all the key learning out of the kit but I think the templates could be reworked to make them easier to use. For example the students often found it confusing working out how the different life phases fit together, with the use of cumlative totals a bit counter intuitive.”
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Posted 1 year ago
Brenda O
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 calculators and the letters
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 part of the assessment for the unit, students really loved using the calculators for their own saving goal
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? Students are more away of compound interest and are more aware of how to save for a goal
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
“I used this kit as part of an Economics unit for Year 10’s. Parts of the kit that were useful were the calculators on sorted.org and the letters. The guide was confusing at times to follow and the logic puzzle was not a hit.”
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Posted 1 year ago
Joanna B
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? >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? Just all the discussions about present and future decisions we had.
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? When the students were so excited about how much their interest had grown. One girl went home after our kiwisaver discussion and got her parents to sign her up for it!
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? We really had a lot of fun playing on the sorted calculators and the students liked the idea of starting early to get more benefit.
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
“I really enjoyed how the students were able to do group work. I did find it would have been useful as a teacher to have a worked answer I could go through as it took a bit of working out what I needed the students to do. The students loved opening the envelopes and seeign what was inside especially. We found the logic puzzle so hard! I love doing these, but teaching a room of teens how to do it didn't work out well!”
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Posted 1 year 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? 30%-45%
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? Using the calculators so they could see it working with 'real' numbers
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? Lots of aha moments
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? More informed questions
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
“Really good resource”
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Posted 1 year 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? 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? I really enjoyed the online space- the community where everyone shared how and what components worked well together
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? We had some older tauira- Year 13 join in on our Year 10 class and they found it extremely beneficial and that they felt more equiped to for their graduation of kura.
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? Tauira are exploring different ways they can encourage their whānau at home with saving and interest making oppportunities.
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
“Our kids loved the relativity of the kit. They felt like it was real life scenarios that they could relate to and be a part of”
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Posted 1 year ago
Emmalene U
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 compound interest videos
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 students were impressed with the impact of compound interest on savings
How have conversations in your classroom changed over the course of teaching this kit? I don't think they really have as a result of this 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
“There were some aspects the students were interested in, but some that didn't seem relevant like the decision matrix exercises. The implementation of the resources on the platform was cumbersome to use.”
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Posted 1 year ago
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