There's something so empowering about teaching teens how to work with percentages, how to budget and what all that fancy-sounding financial language means. Teaching teens financial literacy was even empowering to me. It made me feel I was giving my students the tools they needed to avoid being taken advantage of financially, which can happen to any of us. In this post I want to show the parts of a new word wall that I made to support a financial literacy curriculum and talk a bit about the misconceptions and questions that can arise while teaching teens personal finance class in a consumer math class. The financial literacy word wall in this post puts the vocabulary and concepts in context as it presents the math visually.