Youth Education: Hitting the Fundamentals

The Actuarial Foundation inspires a new generation of “math skilled thinkers” by delivering educational opportunities tailored to students and educators. The Foundation supports mathematic achievement among students in grades 3-12 through an array of educational initiatives.

Youth programs include an award-winning financial literacy curriculum, free math enhancement materials, actuarial math projects for high school students and opportunities for actuaries to work with students in the classroom.

Building Your Future

Award-Winning Financial Literacy Curriculum for High School and College Teachers

Building Your Future is a three-part financial literacy curriculum resource for high school and college teachers. Personal finance is part knowledge and part skill.

Bring this 2010 EIFLE Award winner to your classroom today! More>

Expect the Unexpected With Math® Middle School Math Classroom Series

These middle school math lessons empower students in a fun, engaging way to think of mathematics like never before.

New! The Power of Probability

Students follow a story line of running a business to learn about simple probability, sampling and proportions, compound probability and more!

This release also includes online activities for teachers and students! More>

Solving the Unknown with Algebra

Helps students uncover algebra-based solutions to real-world situations, learning about models and proportions, growth and decay, functions and formulas, and square roots. More>

Actuaries, download the Classroom Guide for Actuaries (pdf) for this installment.

Setting the Stage With Geometry

Helps students build and reinforce basic geometry skills for measuring 2D and 3D shapes. More>

Conversions Rock

See how a rock band navigates their way to stardom using their excellent knowledge of numbers. More >

Bars, Lines & Pies

Teaches students how to create, apply, and analyze pie charts and bar and line graphs while learning about the environment and recycling. “Imagine calculating how much recycling will be going on in the year 2020?” A great concept and the kids get it. More >

Shake, Rattle & Roll

Students apply math concepts to real world “disasters” and their far-reaching effects. A real attention grabber that keeps kids engaged…and learning. More >

Math Academy Series

Created by teachers for teachers, the five-part Math Academy series features hands-on activities and a fun learning environment for the teaching of mathematics to students. Use Math Academy activities to enhance your math instruction while staying true to the academic rigor required by the state standards framework. More >

MATHCOUNTS 2010-2011 School Handbook

Actuaries and actuarial candidates representing The Actuarial Foundation provided their expertise to a section in the MATHCOUNTS 2010-2011 School Handbook which helps students grades 6-8 put math skills they learn into statistical practice using real-world examples. More>