Making Money Easy

About this course

Making Money Easy is an online course that was specially created for people who live with mild to moderate intellectual disability. It helps with learning basic counting and money handling skills, how to budget and how to complete a range of simple to more complex financial transactions. The course helps empower participants by building independence around tasks such as paying bills and handling money when shopping. Ultimately, individuals will gain greater knowledge and skills in financial literacy and improve their confidence, which often leads to positive changes in behaviour.

Through a variety of quizzes, games and staged learning goals, Making Money Easy is engaging and enjoyable for participants. For providers, teachers and parents, it provides a comprehensive evaluation and reporting platform to gauge progress. It includes in-class and at-home evaluation methods so that achievement of goals can be regularly assessed throughout the learning process.

Making Money Easy has been designed in a modular format to be easy to understand and navigate for those who have intellectual challenges and limited literacy. Lesson guides have been created for each of the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced modules. They include suggested lesson plans and a combination of theory and practical exercises that help to reinforce learning and build the participant’s confidence in using their new skills.

Making Money Easy is web-based so participants can continue with their course anywhere and at any time.

Basic level - What you will learn

In this introduction to the basics of money, participants learn how to count to one hundred, identify and count using money and learn about price rounding and practise shopping exercises. This level is an excellent starting point for all participants, even if their skills are more advanced, to discover how Making Money Easy works.

Module 1

• Counting and writing numbers
• Counting with dice
• Reading and writing money amounts
• Introduction to notes and coins

Module 2

• Counting using fingers to practice
• Number sequence
• Money operation (coins and notes)

Module 3

• Making equivalent amounts
• Coins in a piggybank
• Price rounding

Module 4

• Shopping role play
• Household shopping list
• Shopping trip
• The money game

Intermediate level - What you will learn

Participants recap on the concepts learned in the Basic section. They look at needs versus wants, how to pay using the correct change and without the correct money. They learn how to plan and develop a budget and focus on budget goals as they work towards independence in money handling.

Recap 

• Notes and coins
• Price rounding

Module 5

• Needs and wants
• Paying without the correct change
• Shopping and money handling

Module 6

• Basic budgeting
• Planning a weekly budget
• Your budget goals

Advanced level - What you will learn

The Advanced level teaches participants about various online banking services such as ATMs, tap and go and paying with credit cards. They are taught how to read bills and payslips, pay bills and shop online and learn about online security and their rights and responsibilities as a consumer.

Module 7

• Basic banking services
• Using your account
• Different ways to pay
• Online and mobile banking

Module 8

• What is a bill?
• Different ways to pay a bill
• How to pay online
• How to pay over the phone

Module 9

• Online shopping
• Online security

Module 10

• Consumer rights
• Reading a payslip

Making Money Easy for individuals

Encouragement-based learning

Gain skills around money, from counting it to spending it and saving it. The Making Money Easy program is designed to progress the participant gradually through levels of understanding and provides encouragement every step of the way. Parents, teachers and support workers can easily guide participants through, at home and in class.

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Making Money Easy for organisations

Add value through education

Making Money Easy is a ready-to-learn program designed so that your staff can support a person with mild to moderate intellectual disability in gaining skills around money. All the tools you need to commence, support, progress and graduate a participant are built into the fully self-contained system. Simply follow the easy to use training guides, lesson plans and other supports.

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