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Where personal finance meets real-world math skills

Looking for a financial literacy curriculum that does more than check a box for graduation—a course that makes a lasting, meaningful impact?

Lifestyle Math is that course! Newly expanded and completely revised, it equips students with the tools to design the future they want— and the financial literacy and math skills to make it possible.

What Makes It Unique?

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It's Personal

Step by step, choice by choice, students create a budget for their dream life—with everything from housing to retirement.

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It's Real-World

As they budget, students also learn key financial concepts and strategies to help them turn their vision into reality.

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It's Comprehensive

Standards-based financial literacy, practical math, and future-focused planning—in a hybrid learning experience.

Why It Works for Students

PERSONALIZED

Students calculate the costs of real-life choices—for future housing, transportation, food, clothing, savings, and much more—as they create their own Lifestyle Budget Profile, connecting personal finance and everyday math skills to career exploration through lifestyle expectations.

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BUILDS CONFIDENCE WITH MATH & MONEY

Using the online correction tool at LifestyleMath.com, students get instant feedback regarding their calculations, ensuring they master both the math skills and money management concepts needed to send them into the future with confidence.

CONNECTS CAREERS

By linking lifestyle costs to salaries and salaries to potential career paths, students see important connections—like between how they want to live and the education, training, and career opportunities that can make that life a reality.

ENGAGING & INTERACTIVE

Students stay engaged throughout the process—from exploring money management and solving personalized problems to envisioning their ideal future lifestyle. The highly relevant topic gets them invested in their own learning while the immediate feedback from the online correction tool keeps them motivated.

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LifestyleMath.com:
Making Real-World Math Personal

Life isn’t one-size-fits-all—and neither are the numbers behind a real-world budget.

Hybrid Delivery

Unique hybrid delivery =
powerful personalization

Immediate Feedback

Immediate feedback for
every student

Applies to Life

Students see how math
applies to life

In Lifestyle Math, students tackle math tied directly to their own choices and goals rather than abstract word problems. This makes the math meaningful and immediately relevant—but personalization presents a challenge. How do you check for accuracy when every student’s numbers are different?

That’s where LifestyleMath.com comes in.

Student access to the online correction tool is included with each Lifestyle Math workbook.

Students get instant feedback on the accuracy of their math and, if something’s off, the tool pinpoints the error so they can correct their work.

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Why It Works for Schools

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Standards-Aligned

Essential financial literacy concepts are covered—budgeting, income, expenses, saving, investing, taxes, and long-term planning—with student-friendly text and engaging, real-world activities.

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Doubles Down on Math

Demonstrates how financial literacy and math work together to give students the power to make informed decisions about their money, career, and lifestyle.

Critical Thinking
Builds Critical Thinkers

Supports college and career readiness by giving students practice in informed decision-making, problem solving, and future planning.

Flexible Delivery
Flexible

Integrates flexibly into personal finance, math, CTE, or advisory courses—or as an ideal follow-up to a Career Choices series course.

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Standards-Aligned

Designed to meet national financial literacy standards and the requirements of many states, Lifestyle Math provides an engaging, practical way to deliver additional math practice—without adding time to the master schedule or requiring extra intervention.

Students learn critical concepts, including:

  • Banking
  • Budgeting
  • Credit
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Income
  • Independence
  • Insurance
  • Investing
  • Loans
  • Paychecks
  • Planning
  • Retirement
  • Saving
  • Spending
  • Taxes

Math Skills + Financial Literacy = Economic Self-Sufficiency

Developed by Academic Innovations, publisher of the award-winning Career Choices series and curriculum partner of the Get Focused Stay Focused nonprofit, Lifestyle Math builds on nearly four decades of impact and excellence.