January 2022
Director of Education Philip Dituri talks about how financial literacy is somehow rarely discussed or taught in schools. Phil shares how teachers can blend their existing curriculum with contextual lessons based in personal finance and why we need to prepare students for life, not just tests.
October/ November 2021
Founder Andy Davidson was included in the Back to School issue of American Consortium for Equity in Education discussing how teaching personal finance enhances equity for children.
August 2021
Founder Andy Davidson discusses the importance of combining mathematics with personal finance in a brief to the Virginia School Boards Association in their newsletter.
July 2021
In our three-part podcast series, listeners hear from FiCycle team members and high school educators, and learn about the most critical concepts in personal finance and how they connect with mathematics education.
June 2021
Director of Education Philip Dituri shares his “one big idea” for education (that personal finance should be the context through which algebra is taught) and discusses the research behind integrating math and personal finance.
June 2021
Director of Education Philip Dituri talks with Jethro Jones about how and why financial literacy fits into the subject of algebra.
May 2021
Teacher Erik Scott, a retired Navy veteran, discusses how teaching the FiCycle Math course helps him develop his students’ real life problem solving skills.
May 2021
Second career math educator Erik Scott uses his experience to help students see the relevance in their learning.
April 2021
Phil Dituri, Director of Education, discusses equity and ensuring that students have access to financial literacy education in a highly rigorous program.
March 2021
In this episode of TL Talk Radio, learn from Director of Education Philip Dituri about the FiCycle Math curriculum. He talks about teaching high school students financial literacy through algebra, financial literacy experts to follow, book recommendations, and more.
February 2019
Director of Research Jack Marley-Payne discusses real-world tools to support math and why graphing calculators are not necessarily the correct answer.
March 2019
FiCycle’s founder Andrew Davidson shares how schools can combine personal finance and mathematics to create a challenging and engaging math class for juniors and seniors.
