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Money Sense – Primary financial literacy

The Money Sense series provides an effective way to build a strong financial literacy foundation for primary aged students to address learning outcomes in HASS and Mathematics. Each title introduces young readers to basic economic concepts and vocabulary in an … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Big Brands

Titles in the Big Brands series explore the stories behind some of the world’s most fascinating, iconic businesses: Amazon, McDonald’s, Minecraft and Samsung—how they started, their successes and failures, and how they have changed the global marketplace. The contemporary companies … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Consumer Nation

Consumer Nation: How to Shop and Change the World asks readers to look behind the shiny front of retail consumerism to consider the role we, as individuals, have to play in regard to influencing consumerism. Find out how the things … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Economy and Culture Storybooks

This unique picture book series introduces economic concepts, as well as history, geography and culture through well-written stories evocatively illustrated by artists from around the globe. Each story is set in a different country and to introduce an appropriate economic … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Searchlight – How Do We Use Money?

This series helps primary students build critical thinking and financial literacy skills in order to make financially sound decisions about how they use money and prepares them for making more complex decisions into the future. Topics covered include earning, budgeting, … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Start Smart Money

This series introduces beginning readers to the key concepts of early financial literacy in an understandable non-fiction format with simple text, familiar situations and colourful illustrations perfect for young readers.  The four titles introduce the basic ideas of earning, saving, … Continue reading

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Finance & Economics: Money Basics series

These simple, engaging stories present basic financial literacy concepts for young readers for Foundation to Year 2. Concept covered include earning, saving, spending, borrowing, budgeting and comparing shopping (including online), and lay the foundation for developing understanding for managing money … Continue reading

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Mr Crikey and the Greedy Griffith by Matt Porter (Crazy Relief Teachers )

In the fourth book in the Crazy Relief Teacher series, Grade 6B start school with Mr Crikey wrestling a python to the floor – and that is perhaps one of the less interesting events in their crazy school day. A … Continue reading

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