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Second Grade Financial Literacy Curriculum
This is the age a child stops asking “can I have it?” and starts asking “is it worth it?”
Second graders can hold a goal in mind and reason about simple trade-offs — the seed of every budget they'll ever make. Our second grade financial literacy curriculum builds the instincts of waiting, saving, and giving on purpose, so patience and intention become second nature long before the stakes are real.
The Wyzmons™ — a learner for every stage
Second Grade sits in the Money Explorers band — one step in a single K–12 arc, from a first coin to a first paycheck.
Students split their money on purpose across three jars — and set their first real savings goal.
What a Second Grade student learns.
Second Grade sits inside the Money Explorers program — 4 units and 40 lessons of story-, play-, and decision-based learning, taught the way great classrooms actually teach.
Every decision a second grade student makes feeds the FLIQ Score™ — a behavioral measure of how a child actually decides about money, so growth is provable, not guessed.
The Second Grade curriculum is Jump$tart National Standards aligned, follows the HQIM structure districts use to evaluate curriculum, and is FERPA & COPPA compliant. Districts license per school and can pay by purchase order — Title IV-A eligible.
Grade-level design reflects established stages of cognitive development (Piaget) and research on early money-habit formation.
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