Overview

Students need the skills and knowledge to manage their personal financial well-being with confidence, competence and awareness of the world around them.

Financial literacy is more than just knowing about money, financial matters and having the skills to work with this knowledge. It also helps students:

  • manage their personal finances and understand financial decisions
  • learn how to save, invest and set long-term financial goals

Learning at home

Students and their parents can now access modules on how to manage money and invest wisely. These include videos and exercises that can help families talk about how financial literacy plays a role in everyday activities.

Learn about:

  • designing a budget
  • the pros and cons of different types of bank accounts and credit cards
  • loans, credit and investment options
  • protecting yourself from financial fraud and keeping your information safe

Check out our free financial literacy modules for students.

Classroom learning

Students learn about financial literacy as part of these mandatory courses:

Making informed decisions about economic and financial matters is becoming more complex. For this reason, we are continuing to integrate financial literacy in a variety of disciplines.

Starting in September 2025, students must earn new financial literacy graduation requirement as part of their compulsory Grade 10 mathematics course. Students will need to achieve a mark of 70% or higher to pass this new requirement and earn their high school diploma.