Math Lesson: European Debt Crisis

My latest contribution to the New York Times Learning Network is a Math Lesson designed around exploring loan repayment and risk assessment in the context of the European Debt Crisis.

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/crunching-the-numbers-exploring-the-math-of-the-debt-crisis/

In this lesson, students interact with some cool infographics, collect debt data, run the numbers on possible loan repayment schedules, and explore an elementary notion of “risk” in finance.