Standards Alignment
Every grade. Every standard. Matched one by one.
CoinQuest's K-12 curriculum is built on national standards and aligned to the math your students are already learning. Below is the crosswalk for each grade band — the curriculum on the left, the standards it meets on the right.
Common Core Math
Jump$tart
NGPF
CEE
30 states now require personal finance to graduate. CoinQuest meets the requirement — and proves mastery, not just completion.
Grades K-2 · Penny Island
Guide: Copper
"What is money?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| Recognize coins & bills | 2.MD.C.8 money word problems — dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies | CEE Earning Income / Saving (intro) · Jump$tart Spending & Saving (Gr-4 benchmark) |
| Count money & understand value | K.CC.B · 1.NBT · 2.NBT.A place value | CEE Buying Goods & Services (intro) |
| First saving (piggy bank) | 2.OA.A.1 add/subtract word problems | CEE Saving (intro) · Jump$tart Spending & Saving |
| Needs vs. wants (intro) | K-2.MD sorting & categorizing | CEE Buying Goods & Services · NGPF Budgeting (intro) |
Grades 3-4 · Treasure Trail
Guide: Clover
"How do I make simple money choices?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| Making change | 4.MD.A.2 money word problems with decimals | Jump$tart Spending & Saving (Gr-4) · CEE Buying Goods & Services |
| Earning & income (chores, jobs) | 3.OA · 4.OA multiplication & word problems | CEE Earning Income · Jump$tart Employment & Income (Gr-4) |
| Needs vs. wants & choices | 4.OA.A.3 multistep problems | Jump$tart Financial Decision Making · NGPF Budgeting |
| Simple saving goals | 4.NBT · 4.OA operations | CEE Saving · Jump$tart Spending & Saving |
Grades 5-6 · Galaxy Station
Guide: Marco
"How does money grow?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| 50/30/20 budgeting | 6.RP.A.3 ratio reasoning (split a budget) | Jump$tart 5-6.2 "Create a spending & saving plan" · NGPF Budgeting |
| Decimals in the Budget Calculator | 5.NBT.B.7 add, subtract, multiply & divide decimals | Jump$tart Spending & Saving (Gr-8 intro) |
| Needs vs. wants (fractional budgets) | 5.NF.B.6 real-world fraction problems | Jump$tart 5-6.4 needs vs. wants |
| Saving & interest | 6.NS.B.3 multi-digit decimal operations | CEE Using Financial Institutions · Jump$tart 5-6.5 |
Grades 7-8 · City Arena
Guide: Aria
"How do I earn and build?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| Credit, debt & interest rates | 7.RP.A.3 percent — simple interest, tax, markup | CEE Using Credit · Jump$tart Credit & Debt (Gr-8) |
| Earning & entrepreneurship | 7.EE · 8.EE expressions & equations | CEE Earning Income · Jump$tart Employment & Income (Gr-8) |
| Stock market basics | 8.F functions · 7.SP probability/data | CEE Financial Investing (intro) · Jump$tart Investing (Gr-8) |
| Compound interest (intro) | 8.EE.A.1 integer exponents | Jump$tart Spending & Saving · NGPF Banking |
Grades 9-10 · Summit Labs
Guide: Sterling
"How do I grow wealth?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| Investing & compound growth | F-LE.A.2 · F-IF exponential models | CEE Financial Investing · Jump$tart Investing (Gr-12) |
| Risk vs. return | S-ID · S-MD statistics & probability | Jump$tart Risk Management & Insurance (Gr-12) |
| Portfolio management | A-SSE · F-BF building functions | CEE Financial Investing · NGPF Investing |
| Long-term strategy | F-LE.B.5 interpret model parameters | Jump$tart Financial Decision Making |
Grades 11-12 · Executive Suite
Guide: Morgan
"How do I run an adult financial life?"
| Curriculum | Common Core Math | Financial-Literacy Standard |
|---|
| Taxes | N-Q quantities · A-SSE expressions | CEE Earning Income (taxes) · Jump$tart Employment & Income (Gr-12) |
| Credit & real estate (mortgages) | A-CED · F-LE create & use models | CEE Using Credit · Jump$tart Credit & Debt (Gr-12) |
| Retirement & 401(k) | F-LE.A exponential growth over time | CEE Financial Investing · Jump$tart Investing (Gr-12) |
| Insurance | S-MD.B expected value & decisions | CEE Protecting & Insuring · Jump$tart Risk Management & Insurance (Gr-12) |
Common Core Math codes are exact and grade-placed. Financial-literacy alignments map to the named framework's standard / benchmark grade (Jump$tart benchmarks at grades 4, 8, 12; CEE National Standards for Financial Literacy; NGPF units). Every CoinQuest module is also tagged to Bloom's Taxonomy (Remember → Create). Districts can request the full per-module crosswalk for their state's standards.
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