Car buying unit overview | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

less than 1m read

·Nov 10, 2024

Hi teachers,

Welcome to the unit on car buying. Now, car buying—or leasing, I should say—getting a car somehow is something that most people have to do at least once in their life.

The goal of this unit is to help your students navigate that process. First, to just even think about whether they need a car, how they might, and what they might be able to afford. It’s not just the cost of the car; it's all of the maintenance and the fuel and the whole cost of ownership.

Things like appreciation, thinking about whether to buy versus lease, and then going through the process of maybe negotiating a price, and some of the practices that might be involved when they do that. There's also questions of how do you pay for that car? Is it cash? Is it financed? Are you leasing it once again?

So, I encourage you to dig into this with your students and also don't be afraid to share some of your own personal experiences, because I know that you had some.

Rival and excludable goods

How to Stop Worrying and Stressing about School

View All

Warren Buffett: Buy These Inflation-Proof Businesses

Well, the businesses that will perform the best are the ones that require little capital investment to facilitate inflationary growth and that have strong positions that allow them to increase prices with inflation. And, well, those modest statements wer…

In Your Face - Mind Field (Ep 7)

If I asked you to show me a picture of your mother, you wouldn’t show me a, uh, closeup shot of her elbow. But you could, and you’d be right. That would be a photo of her, but it wouldn’t feel right because it’s not her face. That’s how important faces ar…

If You Were a Tree... - Fan Questions | StarTalk

I’d want to be planted in a wide-open meadow so that every one of my branches can receive all the sunlight at once. I don’t want to have to compete for the photons from the Sun, which is what goes on daily, hourly, in a forest, especially rainforests wher…

Jerome Powell: The Great Inflation Stalemate Has Begun

We know that reducing policy restraint too soon could result in a reversal of the progress that we’ve seen on inflation. At the same time, reducing policy restraint too late or too little could unduly weaken economic activity and employment. Right now, th…

2015 AP Chemistry free response 2 d e

The Lewis electron dot diagram for C2H4 is shown below. In the box on the left, in the box on the right, complete the Lewis electron dot diagram for C2H5O, or ethanol, by drawing in all of the electron pairs. As they said, this right over here, this is t…

The derivative & tangent line equations | Derivatives introduction | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy

We’re told that the tangent line to the graph of function at the point (2, 3) passes through the point (7, 6). Find f prime of 2. So whenever you see something like this, it doesn’t hurt to try to visualize it. You might want to draw it out or just visua…

Car buying unit overview | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

More Articles