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Real Estate Ideas

Real Estate Ideas

After the students bought houses online, we made little paper models and added sold and for sale signs. We also used the dice to roll up natural disasters to test out students' properly insurance. Thi

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Property Guru Fail

Property Guru Fail

Here we are day one of our second L3 Covid-19 lock-down (for Auckland at least). It's 9:30am and my students are already emailing me about their bank accounts. Almost daily I have a few students with

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My changes in Banqer

My changes in Banqer

I am a second year BT with a Year 5 & 6 class. I used Banqer from my second term last year and the kids loved it. We used it right through until the end of the year and i was excited about using it fr

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Purchasing property on Banqer

Purchasing property on Banqer

1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes I have found in the past that students who invest early in properties make the biggest financial gains. An interesting point to talk about could be: Is it better to fully pay off

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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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Monopoly, Probability & Financial Literacy

Monopoly, Probability & Financial Literacy

My class have spent one maths lesson a week learning about Financial Literacy, during the last 10 weeks. I only see these students 4 times a week and they really enjoy what they are learning. We have

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Risks and benefits of insurance

Risks and benefits of insurance

I activated the Property Insurance module at the start of this week and my class had a great discussion about the risks and benefits of insurance: Sometimes you pay a lot of money for something you ne

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Interest-ing house prices

Interest-ing house prices

Today my kids spent the afternoon looking at house prices, and how much interest people pay for their houses. We used the new myhouse.co.nz app brought out last week, and lots of the students could ma

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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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