Students will launch the wealth-building project by examining the cost of waiting, identifying ninth-grade users and community need, and drafting the core challenge, user profile, and inquiry questions that will guide later research, interviews, and design work.

Students will analyze financial education gaps, evaluate source credibility, identify root causes of why ninth graders miss early wealth-building opportunities, and propose an evidence-based direction for a student-friendly savings solution.

Students will turn their math evidence, user research, and interview insights into a testable campaign concept for ninth graders by analyzing strong models, predicting impact, planning production, and documenting an initial prototype plus revision based on peer feedback.

Students will implement a small-scale test of their ninth-grade savings message and cost-of-waiting visual, collect evidence from real users, and use that evidence to judge effectiveness and identify revisions before the final sharing phase.

Students will present the ninth-grade wealth-building campaign kit and visual cost-of-waiting case study to an authentic audience, then document how their math understanding, communication, design choices, and community-informed thinking changed across the project.