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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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Set up your Classroom Economy

Set up your Classroom Economy

Want to teach your students about financial literacy? Want to reinforce the importance of working hard to be successful in life? Want to have some fun with your class? Consider setting up a full blown

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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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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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Need some new company ideas to prevent gambling

Need some new company ideas to prevent gambling

Here is something my students came up with: - bath bombs - fishing flies - art - helping hands They are amazing and the kids love them!

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Looking for fun retirement ideas

Looking for fun retirement ideas

Hi Jess, Can you please active the invite to Lenny as a teacher in MAT 8B

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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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Realisation about owning vehicles

Realisation about owning vehicles

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Trigger disasters in the classroom

Trigger disasters in the classroom

I also like to have them relate to the world or national events, tieing the Banqer world to the real world. So if there is a major flood or storm there will be one in the Banqer world too. The stude

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Student input with setting up income and expenses

Student input with setting up income and expenses

Our class has just started using Banqer this term. Having researched the minimum wage and student wages they have agreed to a weekly wage of $378 being $12.60 p.hr for a 6 hour day (no lunch payment).

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Setting up Banqer, and rewarding leadership

Setting up Banqer, and rewarding leadership

We're in the process of setting up Banqer in our 7/8 class, where I've been quite open about using it to not only learn about financial literacy but also as an incentive scheme. Very quickly the class

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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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