Financial Literacy

My Experience. Numbers have always played a big role in my life, but never in a finance way, just simple plain mathematics. The only type of “financial literacy” I got in elementary or middle school was a quarter was 25 cents, a dime was 10 cents, a nickel was 5 cents, and a penny was a cent. Outside of school, most of my family weren’t financially literate either, just my grandfather. He would just tell me to be smart with my money, but as someone as young as I was, I didn’t understand what that really meant. High School. In my high school, we had these rotational classes, meaning each marking period there was a different class to try to teach us about finance, careers, etc. Freshman year the class I took that could’ve possibly taught me anything about financial literacy would be my consumer math class. The issue with that class was the teacher didn’t even look like she wanted to teach it. She would just give us assignments on finance, but didn’t really explain it. If she ...