The Fifth Third Bank Young Bankers Club® Curriculum

Apr 10, 2023 11:35 AM ET
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The Fifth Third Bank Young Bankers Club® is an engaging financial education program that helps students learn key math life skills online at any time. Lessons were developed to help students establish sound foundations in money management and an appreciation for saving.

Through the Young Bankers Club®, students are presented anywhere from six to eight modules based on their grade level. Each lesson in the module-based financial education program provides a unique, engaging approach to financial literacy that meets students where they are and helps them apply their knowledge gradually to more complex scenarios. The program incorporates different facets of banking, while clearly identifying the relevant math content standards within each unit—outlining what students should know and be able to use.

Each lesson represents a “level,” and focuses on the following aspects of personal finance:

  • Budgeting
  • Banking and Payment Methods
  • Overspending and Lending to Others
  • Borrowing Money
  • Jobs and Income
  • Saving and Investing
  • Protect Your Money - Risk and Insurance

The program includes fourth through sixth grade Common Core standards for mathematics, including operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations, measurement and data, geometry, ratios and proportional relationships, the number system and statistics and probability. It also meets Jump$tart and Council for Economic Education National Standards in K-12 Personal Financial Education, including spending and saving, credit and debt, employment and income, investment, risk management and insurance, and financial decision making.

Young Bankers Club® is part of Fifth Third’s L.I.F.E. (Lives Improved Through Financial Empowerment®) program, which delivers financial learning opportunities to people at all ages and stages of life. For more information about the digital Young Bankers Club® program, visit www.53.com/ybc.