Economic Ed Lowdown (40 points and 25 points)

Another app on the iPad is called “Econ-ed lowdown” and is yet another app that challenges you to understand terminology in finances and, most importantly for us, living smartly within a budget. Upon launching the app, you’ll find 4 choices of topics you can study: Inflation, Cost of Credit, Budgeting, and Personal Finance Flashcards. While all 4 entries are interesting and worthy, this task is focused on the “Budgeting” part. Within that, there are 2 options I’d like you to investigate: “Experiment” and “Challenge”.

In “Experiment”, your task is to defeat the expert. You are given choices to make, and if you can wisely choose the correct option each time, then you’ll beat the expert! It’s not so simple! Some of the choices are very thought-provoking, and you’ll need to carefully consider what is in front of you. If you do manage to beat the expert, capture the evidence in a screenshot and post it in a new blog entitled, “Econ Lowdown”. 40 points your way!

Further, if you can ace the challenge questions (also fairly challenging), then post the screenshot of that as well in the same blog, for 25 MORE points. 65 riding on the successful completion of this one.

 

 

To complete:

1) Launch the “Econ-ed lowdown” app on your iPad.

2) Open the “Budgeting” option, then proceed to complete the “experiment” and/or the “challenge” tasks within. Each is separate. Take as many tries at it as you need.

3) Screen shot the success page(s)

4) Email me the screenshot(s) with the subject line being “your name-edconed lowdown challenge” and/or “you name-econed lowdown experiment”

Wise Money! (20 points)

This task is simple. An app on your iPad is entitled “Wisemoney”. It walks you through some basic personal finance questions. In order to progress through the game, you need to answer the questions correctly. You will not advance if you do not!

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To complete:

1) Launch the app.

2) Begin playing the game. Carefully answer the questions.

3) When you’ve completed the game successfully, your screen will indicate that by claiming “Winner!”

4) Take a screenshot of that

5) Email the screenshot to me with the subject line being “your name-wise money”.

 

 

Financial Football (10-25 points)

One of the apps on the iPad is called “Financial Football” (I’ve seen many of you messing around with it from time to time), presented by Visa. It asks a variety of financial questions ranging from fairly simple, to challenging and not so obvious. There are 3 levels the game can be played at: Rookie, Pro, and Hall-of-Fame. In each, the game’s objective is drive the ball down the field and score, while stopping the other team from doing the same, all by answering questions correctly. All questions are personal finance based. Your task is this: score twice in the 10-minute version of the hall-of-fame level. Not the easiest thing to do. Incorrect answers definitely get in the way of success. If you can manage this feat, 25 points are yours. If you find that task too difficult to achieve, then for 15 points you can score just one touchdown in a half (10 minutes) on the hall-of-fame level, or for 10 points you can score at all in any level. You can only record one score into your grade with this task, but you can try as many times as you’d like! Once, however, you’ve decided to enter a score, it’s over, that’s what you’ll get, no improving it.

To complete:

1)Launch Financial Football app

2) Play game, choose teams (irrelevant to success, although I will look closely at who you’ve chosen to play as and against), and choose a 10-minute half.

3) Play the game by answering questions. Don’t dilly-dally, the clock keeps ticking and time is of the essence (it helps to win the toss; I wouldn’t blame you if you ensured that happened before you embarked playing).

4) Get your satisfactory score and send the screenshot of the score in an email to me with the subject line being “your name-financial football.”