http://www.financialorganizing.info/2010/01/19/mildred-pierce-and-the-morality-of-success/ sorting out money and meaning Thu, 31 May 2012 23:13:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.financialorganizing.info/2010/01/19/mildred-pierce-and-the-morality-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-14671 Susan Tiner Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:35:57 +0000 http://www.financialorganizing.info/?p=1173#comment-14671 Little House, I don’t think we should wait until second-semester calculus to teach kids about compound interest. There’s a way to teach about compounding without getting bogged down in the mathematics. If kids knew that money grows the way that bacteria grows, that might produce an aha moment!

]]> http://www.financialorganizing.info/2010/01/19/mildred-pierce-and-the-morality-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-14670 Little House Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:48:02 +0000 http://www.financialorganizing.info/?p=1173#comment-14670 You described this in such a wonderful, story-telling way. Your point is so valid, we are becoming a nation of people who have no clue about finances. I didn’t calculus covers compound interest. Probably because I didn’t take calculus! I skipped over to statistics where I can’t for the life of me remember what I learned!

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