In response to the country's low financial literacy rates among teens, the Treasury Department, working with the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at UM-St. Louis, developed a supplemental middle school math curriculum that teaches the importance of sound personal finance to students in grades 6 through 9 and works as a skills building block to equip youth for a future when they will be required to handle even more complex concepts. Money Math lesson topics include

income, saving, taxes, and budgeting. The launch of this important middle-school financial education program comes on the heels of Alan Greenspan's recent call-to-action urging the teaching of basic financial management skills to kids beginning at a young age.

Money Math: Lessons for Life is available for download and printing in PDF format.

To place an order for the Money Math curriculum booklet, send an e-mail to moneymath@bpd.treas.gov