This article in the Guardian points out how kids can learn money management from games.
Freemium games are a chance to teach kids how to manage their money | Technology | theguardian.com:
The next step is to use similar techniques to teach kids how to program computers, and maybe even learn math and science.
It has always amazed me that kids who were very poor students could manage handling the odds in card games. When those same kids grew up, they could handicap racehorses, and successfully plan high stake card and casino games by understanding relatively complex contingent probability concepts. They could also memorize cards played--but couldn't remember school facts? They thought it was fun, so they learned. School, in contrast, wasn't fun to them. If game developers and education software experts could get together, I think kids would learn better, schools could be more fun, and the world will be a better place!
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