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Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy

Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy

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Let’s start a conversation about interest, credit scores, and post secondary loans. This series explores the basics of these three topics every high school student should know upon graduating. These complex topics are broken down with conversational language guided by field experts and graphics.

Digital images of 3 side-by-side gray credit card shapes with 2 black lines, grid of 9 small rectangles, and yellow and orange overlapping circles.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 1 / Ep 1
4 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital image of financial table, 1 labeled "simple interest loan," and the other, "compound interest loan." Each column has interest rate, fee, and interest payment totals for years 1, 2 and 3.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 1 / Ep 2
3 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Digital image of large black dollar signs flanking an icon depicting a family of 3.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 1 / Ep 3
5 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Neon green, black, and red icons representing money and taxes against a bright blue background.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 2 / Ep 1
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon hand holds a little red money bag with a United States dollar sign on it.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 2 / Ep 2
4 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Table shows Time, Percentage, and Total across four weeks.
Beginning Balance: Financial Literacy
Season 2 / Ep 3
4 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12