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07/30/2010 The Actuarial Foundation
THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION
WHAT WE DO:
The Actuarial Foundation is the charitable arm of the actuarial profession, supporting youth education through the development and distribution of math curriculum materials to U.S. teachers with the goal of improving the mathematics performance and financial literacy of our nation’s students. Through individual and corporate contributions, and the volunteer spirit of actuaries, the Foundation curricula have reached more than two million students.
WHAT WE OFFER:
The Foundation offers teachers grades 3-12 unique, fun, hands-on, engaging mathematic and financial literacy programs to use as an enhancement or adjunct to their curriculum. All of these easy-to-implement materials have been developed with the teacher in mind.
Building Your Future is the Foundation’s most recent program and is an engaging, relevant financial literacy curriculum to help high school students master the foundational elements of personal finance and to prepare for life after high school.
Setting the Stage With Geometry helps students grades 6-8 build and reinforce basic geometry skills for measuring 2D and 3D shapes.
Conversions Rock has a rock-n-roll band navigate its way to stardom using its knowledge of numbers in this fun and engaging program for students grades 6-8.
Bars, Lines & Pies teaches students grades 4-6 how to create, apply and analyze pie charts and bar and line graphs, all while learning about the environment and recycling. Imagine calculating how much recycling will happen in the year 2020. It’s a novel concept and the kids get it.
Shake, Rattle & Roll is an award-winning program for students grades 6-8, which provides skills-building lessons and activities while applying real-world disaster concepts and their far-reaching effects. A real attention grabber that keeps kids engaged and learning.
Math Academy Series provides teachers grades 3-8 with teaching tools and hands-on activities in a five-booklet series to enhance their math instruction while staying true to the rigor required by the state standards framework.
WHAT WE NEED:
The Foundation’s goal is to promote the availability of its math curriculum programs to every U.S. teacher. We seek strategic partners to help us reach out to teachers, provide them with our materials and expand our existing youth education programs or collaborate on new ones.
WHAT’S NEW:
To support the launch of our Building Your Future financial literacy series and to help teachers during the “back-to-school” season, The New York Life Foundation has made a contribution to provide individual sets of the program materials to high school teachers free of charge. If you are a high school teacher who would like to receive these materials email your name, school name and full mailing address to Turn on JavaScript! and indicate that you would like to receive a complimentary set of the Building Your Future financial literacy curriculum resource. Supplies are limited and will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis. To view the Building Your Future materials in full, go to:
www.ActuarialFoundation.org/programs/youth/BuildingYourFuture.shtml.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Eileen Streu, CAE
Executive Director
The Actuarial Foundation
475 N. Martingale Road, Suite 600
Schaumburg, IL 60173-2226
847-706-3535 Phone
847-706-3599 Fax
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