Being better at math increases income but also ties satisfaction more closely to money. Jonathan Kitchen/Digital Vision via Getty Images Your grade school math teacher probably told you that being ...
Video: Sheila Bair and Paul Solman talk about how simple math and financial education, like the savings lessons in her children’s book ‘Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock,’ might have helped avert the ...
Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education recently completed a series of financial education teacher training classes called "Hard Core Boot Camp." One of the ...
Interest is quite possibly the most complex bit of math that the average person has to use everyday. Like the Force, it can be used for good, for evil, and it binds the galaxy together. When interest ...
According to the Social Security Administration, taking your benefits as early as possible (age 62 for those born after 1960) ...
Step aside, “girl dinner” — it’s time for “girl math.” Girl math revolves around justifying your spending habits in creative ways, like subscribing to the idea that if you buy clothes and later return ...
Whether we know it or not, we’ve all found ourselves doing some “girl math”. Let’s say you purchase a dress at a department store for $100, but return it the next day because it didn’t fit quite right ...
Maybe you missed grade school lessons in key math skills that come in handy managing money as an adult. Or you just don’t remember them. Either way, trouble calculating 40% off for shoes, the amount ...