To Enable Students to Solve Financial Problems of Daily Life for Themselves

An Attempt to Make Students Budget for a Single Life by Using Computers

Abstract

In order to enable male high school students to solve financial problems of daily life for themselves, the authors had students make a budget for a single life by using computers in home economics classes. The results were as follows: 1 The students came to be active in solving financial problems of daily life for themselves after the classes. 2 The self-reliant students towards finances tended to be good at making a budget. 3 The students who had been reluctant to solve financial problem of daily life for themselves, tended to change their attitude toward finances life after the classes.