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Bank Reminder

Bank Reminder

Hi, Please ensure your automatic payments for your weekly Friday lunches and ipad hire are update, for the correct amount and being paid to the bank. You will be penalised $65 every week your payment

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First term using Banqer + Class Online Auction

First term using Banqer + Class Online Auction

As a first time user of Banqer on a Year 6 class, I have enjoyed seeing the enthusiasm from my students as they have obtained a basic income from class attendance and job income. I used the regular jo

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Stolen funds

Stolen funds

As part of my Banqer lessons I regularly "steal" money from my student's accounts. Some times all of them and sometimes just some of them. I do this to see who is really checking their accounts and ta

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Online Banqer Security - Impromptu Lesson

Online Banqer Security - Impromptu Lesson

So in my journey of teaching my students about online banking and financial literacy, i explained that if they left their accounts logged in they were leaving themselves open to theft. I therefore gav

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Banqer -Maths and Motivation

Banqer -Maths and Motivation

We love Banqer. We get paid $300 to successfully engage in and complete our tasks every week. We give out bonuses for going over and above the expectation and we accrue debts for incompletion of tasks

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End of Term Auction

End of Term Auction

Well, after looking for some inspiration at the end of the term I read a post about running an auction = and decided to go for that as the way to wrap things up. I decided that the auction would be fo

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Year 6/7 Class

Year 6/7 Class

We introduced Banqer to our class in Term 4 last year and it was an instant success with the students and with the parents as well. Have continued to use it again this year and proving very motivation

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Bankruptcy in my class

Bankruptcy in my class

Hi Mr C. Great to hear your students are still engaged. I also love your idea of simulating natural disasters based on the current events - very contextualised. Bankruptcy can be approved via the 'S

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Bank manager visit

Bank manager visit

We are a year 6/7/8 class and our whole Maths programme for the last few weeks has been based on Banqer and financial literacy. We have had a local bank manager visit us twice and have filled out form

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Transforming a classroom into an Economy

Transforming a classroom into an Economy

Every chance I get I love to get out of Banqer HQ and into some of our amazing Banqer classrooms across New Zealand. Every visit I learn something new about Banqer, because Banqer is simply a tool. It

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Cyber safety

Cyber safety

I have been using Banqer with my year 4-6 students as an example of passwords that need to be secure and safe. I have used social engineering, trickery, bribes and underhand tactics to try and obtai

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