Earning and Purchasing
Overall Expectations:
Interpret information about different types of remuneration, and solve problems and make decisions involving different remuneration methods;
- Easy Money (Book)
- 101 Salary Secrets (CloudLibrary eBook)
- Compensation Traps (Kanopy eVideo)
- Salary and Benefits (Website)
- Payment of Wages (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of payroll deductions and their impact on purchasing power;
- Understanding Your Pay Stub (Website)
- T4032 Payroll Deduction Tables (Website)
- Canadian Pay/Salary Structure/Benefits and Deductions (YouTube)
- Understanding Your Pay (YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of the factors and methods involved in making and justifying informed purchasing decisions.
- Smart Shopping (Hoopla eBook)
- Shopping Smarts (Hoopla eBook)
- Calculating Sale Price (Website)
- Percent of a Number: Tax and Discount (Website)
- Harmonized Sales Tax (Website)
- Online Shopping Across the Border? Expect Added Fees and Do Your Research (Website)
- Shopping Online and Shipping to Canada. (Website)
- What You Need to Know About Charging HST in Ontario (Website)
- When Are Sales Too Good to Be True? (Website)
- Budgeting (Website)
- Comparison shopping (YouTube)
- Grocery shopping …Using Unit Rates (YouTube)
Saving, Investing and Borrowing
Overall Expectations:
Describe and compare services available from financial institutions;
- Banking (Website)
- Banking Options (Website)
- How Canadians Bank (YouTube)
- How to Read Your Bank Statement, and Why It’s Important to do So (YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of simple and compound interest, and solve problems involving related applications;
- How Interest Rates, Credit Ratings, and Lending Affect You (Hoopla eBook)
- Simple Interest (Website)
- Power of a Compound Interest Table (Website)
- Compound Interest Calculator (Website)
- Future Value Calculator (Website)
- What is Compound Interest (YouTube)
- Time Value of Money (YouTube)
- Saving and Investing (YouTube
Interpret information about different ways of borrowing and their associated costs, and make and justify borrowing decisions.
- A Canadian’s guide to Money-Smart Living (Book)
- First credit cards and credit smarts (Book)
- How to use Credit Optimally (Kanopy eVideo)
- Loans and Lines of Credit (Website)
- Understanding Credit (Website)
- Credit Reports and Scores (Website)
- Credit Card Payment Calculator (Website)
- Student Loan Repayment Calculator (Website)
- Mortgage Calculator (Website)
Transportation and Travel
Overall Expectations:
Interpret information about owning and operating a vehicle, and solve problems involving the associated costs;
- Buying your First Car (Hoopla eBook)
- Get a G Driver’s Licence: New Drivers (Website)
- All About Auto Insurance (Website)
- Take Control of your Auto Insurance [Webpage]
- How much does it cost to own and drive a car (Website)
- Canadian Black book (Website)
- Kelley Blue book: New and Used Car Prices (Website)
- Driving Costs Calculator (Website)
- Driving to Reduce Fuel Consumption and Improve Safety (Website)
Plan and justify a route for a trip by automobile, and solve problems involving associated costs;
- Ontario, Backroad Atlas (Book)
- Lonely Planet, Canada’s Best Trips (Book)
- Official Road Map of Ontario, Distance Triangle (Website)
- Winter Road Conditions (Website)
- Ontario Travel (Website)
- 407 Map and Toll Calculator (Website)
- Are you getting the best deal when you book through an online travel agency? (Website)
Interpret information about different modes of transportation, and solve related problems.
- First Car Smarts (Hoopla eBook)
- Overview of Air Pollution from Transportation (Website)
- Which Transport is the Fairest of Them All? (Website)