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Credit, Debt & Investing 101

High school personal finance · Medium · 15-20 min

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This board helps players review Life Skills · Credit & Investing through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Credit Scores, Credit Cards, Loans & Debt, Investing Basics, Retirement. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Credit Scores

    The most common credit score model.

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    FICO

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  • Credit Cards

    A card that lets you borrow up to a limit.

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    Credit card

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  • Loans & Debt

    Loan to buy a house.

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    Mortgage

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  • Investing Basics

    Owning a share of a company.

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    Stock

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  • Retirement

    Employer-sponsored retirement account.

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    401(k)

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Credit Scores

$100 — The most common credit score model.
FICO
$200 — Range of FICO scores.
300 to 850
$300 — The biggest factor in your credit score (~35%).
Payment history
$400 — The second-biggest factor (~30%).
Amounts owed / credit utilization
$500 — Recommended utilization ratio to stay below.
30% (ideally under 10%)

Credit Cards

$100 — A card that lets you borrow up to a limit.
Credit card
$200 — Yearly cost of the rate you pay on a credit card balance.
APR (Annual Percentage Rate)
$300 — Smallest payment due to avoid late fee.
Minimum payment
$400 — What happens if you only pay the minimum every month.
You pay much more in interest over time
$500 — Doing this on a credit card builds your history.
Paying on time and in full

Loans & Debt

$100 — Loan to buy a house.
Mortgage
$200 — Loan for college tuition.
Student loan
$300 — Loan to buy a car.
Auto loan
$400 — Strategy: pay smallest debt first for motivation.
Snowball method
$500 — Strategy: pay highest-interest debt first to save money.
Avalanche method

Investing Basics

$100 — Owning a share of a company.
Stock
$200 — Loan you give to a government or company.
Bond
$300 — A basket of stocks tracked together.
Index fund / ETF
$400 — Spreading investments to reduce risk.
Diversification
$500 — Famous index of 500 large U.S. companies.
S&P 500

Retirement

$100 — Employer-sponsored retirement account.
401(k)
$200 — Personal retirement account.
IRA
$300 — When the employer adds to your 401(k) up to a percent.
Employer match
$400 — You should always contribute enough to get this.
The full match (free money)
$500 — Starting early helps because of this concept.
Compound interest / compounding

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