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Finance project

This Core Maths resource package involves students completing a financially-themed project. Students are given the task of promoting, manufacturing and delivering a new mobile phone for the best possible price. Students complete annual reports on monthly income and expenditure, explore interest rates, exchange rates and budgeting.

Finance Project: overview

This teacher guidance provides the structure and details of the project as a whole.

Finance Project: presentation

This detailed PowerPoint guides the teacher and students through each part of the project, providing ideas and scaffolding for each of the five main parts of the project.

Finance Project: assessment and mark scheme

A five part exam with solutions to help teachers assess student learning.

Finance Project: competence criteria

Competence statements for assessing financial knowledge, problem solving and use of technology.

Finance Project: warm ups

Ideas and introductory activities that can be incorporated at the start of each section of the project. Areas covered include exam style questions, compound interest and Premier League football games.

Finance Project: student work examples

Three Excel files that contain examples of student work.

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