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"Checkbook Math" Being Phased Out Of High Schools

We may indeed have a nation of financially illiterate youths, but despite cries for increased financial education in public high schools, the one program that's historically addressed this—"checkbook math"—has never enjoyed a reputation as a "real" math class because the actual math skills involved are so basic, and it's being phased out as most students avoid it because, as one student says, it "doesn't look good for colleges." More »

7:19 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Chris Walters
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