“Students learned real-world information (finances, pricing, stocks, etc.) through a hands-on experience. Students experience math; they don’t just learn it.” – 5th grade teacher
Our Programs

The BizWorld Foundation offer hands-on, interdisciplinary curricula that connects classroom learning to the real world by teaching key concepts and vocabulary in a way that is creative, challenging, and engaging to students in grades 3-8. The program offerings, BizWorld and BizWiz teach children about the exciting and pertinent concepts of business, entrepreneurship and money management. Both programs foster responsibility, leadership, problem solving and critical thinking skills through a Math, English Language Arts, S.S. and Economics curriculum in a stimulating, fun environment. Both programs are correlated to national standards.

Core Concepts: Business and Entrepreneurship

Program Description: In the BizWorld program, students work in teams to start and run their own businesses in a simulated friendship bracelet industry. Taking on different leadership roles, students learn the basics of business and entrepreneurship as they apply for jobs, design, manufacture, market, and sell their products in the BizWorld marketplace.

Duration : Thirteen 45-minute sessions

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Core Concepts: Saving and Investing

Program Description: In BizWiz, students play the roles of analysts, controllers and traders to learn the basics of saving and investing. Working in teams, students set financial goals, analyze forecasts, create a diversified portfolio, track their investments, allocate assets and trade.

Duration: Seven 45-minute sessions

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