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Sport provides an excellent vehicle for teaching financial education, particularly if it is associated with a local club – football, cricket or tennis. This activity explores ticket sales, travelling costs, players’ salaries and similar topics. You could run this activity across two lessons to allow more time for research and discussion. You may even choose to use these activities as a basis for a class ‘sport’ topic. Additionally, this activity, can be used in conjunction with ‘A Sporting Fan’ activity.

Explores real-life money management, and the pressures of buying merchandise in relation to sport. 

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A sporting chance

Introduce the topic of advertising being used to influence people's spending decisions, followed from *'A sporting chance'.* 

A sporting fan

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A sporting chance

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