Troy High School – Personal Money Management

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Course satisfies $%$ credit of math related graduation requirement during the 12th grade year. Personal Money Management presents essential knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about real world financial issues. Students taking Personal Money Management will demonstrate knowledge of money management, including banking, saving and budgeting; consumer behaviors-values, decision making, purchases of big-ticket items-transportation and housing. Students will learn financial responsibility through participation in a simulation of a real-world economic activity in classroom economy. They will earn a paycheck and experience bill paying. Ex: the rent of their desks. By the end of the course the students will understand how to make wise spending, saving, and credit decisions and to make effective use of income to achieve personal financial success.