The Basics of Money
Understanding needs vs. wants, piggy banks vs. savings accounts, the story of currency and smart spending habits.
- Wants vs. Needs Activity Sheet
- My First Savings Goal Tracker
- Money Vocabulary for Beginners
Money Matters helps girls understand earning, saving, budgeting, UPI safety and bank account setup—practical skills that build true independence for life.
Financial literacy designed specifically for every stage of growing up.
Understanding needs vs. wants, piggy banks vs. savings accounts, the story of currency and smart spending habits.
Opening your first student bank account, navigating UPI safely, setting up monthly allowance budgets and avoiding online scams.
Introduction to investing, credit scores, taxes, building emergency funds and managing early-career salaries or stipends.
The Money Matters Financial Simulation turns financial concepts into a live decision environment. Players choose careers, allocate money across needs, wants, savings and growth, respond to market events and opportunities, negotiate trade-offs, earn income, settle each round and watch their position move on the leaderboard.
The full interactive portfolio documents the inquiry, planning, delivery and reflection behind Anaya’s Money Matters community project, including the four IB criteria, primary baseline survey, six-week curriculum arc, adaptive facilitation, project outcomes and exhibition materials.
Free interactive workbooks, planners and worksheets to turn financial concepts into practical habits.
An interactive planning resource for tracking monthly expenses, savings goals and allowance allocations.
Discussion prompts for talking about money, savings, budgeting and financial decisions openly at home.
Learn the principles, practise decisions in the simulation and explore the project that shaped Money Matters.