Financial Research Sites

In this course, you will have to research real financial products. This is practice for the real world, where you don’t just have to understand the financial products, you also have to know how to find the best deal.

Here is a list of some of the sites that will help you.

Financial Comparison Sites:

These sites allow you to compare various financial products meeting certain criteria – e.g. credit card with no annual fee. Comparison sites are a convenient way to shop around for the best deal without having to go through many different websites by yourself. Some of the most common are:

https://www.nerdwallet.com

https://www.creditkarma.com

https://www.creditcards.com

Specialty Sites:

https://www.zillow.com/

  • This site provides information on homes, both to rent and to buy
  • You can search by area, price, size, etc.

https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/

  • This site provides information on the salaries of various jobs

https://www.numbeo.com/

  • This site provides information on the cost of living in locations around the world
  • It provides specific information on the cost of food, healthcare, and transit by location

To read our standards download here or click through the full standards below.

Other helpful documents:

Standards Rationale

Get a more in-depth picture of the rationale behind our standards such as the five principles that governed our approach and why an approach like this is important given the current state of personal finance and math education.

Compare FiCycle’s Standards to national standards for personal finance

Why the need to create new standards? Read our Comparison document to understand the difference between our approach with Jump$tart and CEE.

Response to Comments

We received such insightful feedback from teachers, professors, and experts after releasing a proposed draft of our standards. This document details the changes/revisions we’ve made to address these comments.

FiCycle Standards for Personal Finance and Mathematics_April 2024