Mathusee Stewardship

 My daughter finished Mathusee Stewardship and I wanted to post a quick review of this curriculum.

Here is a link to Stewardship on Mathusee's website:  https://store.demmelearning.com/building-faith-families/stewardship

Stewardship is a personal finance/consumer math course written for high school.  On my daughter's transcript, I assigned one credit Personal Finance.  It took my daughter about 6-7 months to finish the course.  I do think an advanced 8th grader could successfully use this course.  

The course includes the videos (which are found online for free).  At the beginning of each lesson, Steve Demme teaches the lesson material in a video.

Link to videos: https://stewardshipmath.com/videos-and-other-resources/stewardship-videos/

The course also includes an Instruction Manual, a Student Workbook and a book called Biblical Principles (which is almost more like a devotional, but covers the subject discussed in each lesson).

The course covers:

• Income
• Overtime pay
• Bank accounts
• Budgets
• Credit Cards
• Interest and Compound Interest
• How much it costs per day to own a vehicle
• Car Loans
• Mortgages
• House Repairs/Maintenance Costs
• Medical Insurance
• College Costs
• Investing
• Charity/Giving

The math in this course is not challenging.  It's mostly prealgebra and algebra 1 skills.  But, most of the math we use every day is not beyond that level.  We thought the content and topics covered were excellent.  My daughter learned a lot during this course and I will definitely have the younger two work through this course during high school.  I regret that I didn't buy this for my oldest two before they graduated.      

New Curriculum Review: Mathusee Stewardship

 This just arrived from Rainbow Resource:  https://stewardshipmath.com

This is going to be my 16 year-old's last high school year (most likely) and I couldn't decide if I wanted her to continue with Precalculus or do this Stewardship course.  She plans to major in Fine Arts, so I decided to buy the Stewardship.  She will never use Precalculus in her daily life.  But, this Stewardship course looked incredible.

I'm going to put one credit of Personal Finance on her transcript when she completes this.

It covers personal finance/consumer math, including these topics:

• income
• income taxes
• banking/credit unions
• budgeting
• credit cards
• comparison shopping
• vehicle ownership/purchasing
• mortgages
• house ownership costs
• compound interest
• investing
• charity
• insurance

It comes with 4 parts:

•  digital code to see the lectures online
• instruction manual (textbook, basically)
• student workbook
• biblical studies book (which covers what the Bible says about different financial topics)

I'm planning to have her start this by August at the latest.  1 credit under the category of math: Personal Finance.