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Is it necessary to carry out financial education in primary schools?
Offering financial management courses to let primary school students learn financial management knowledge can bring some benefits, but we also need to pay attention to some problems.

First of all, financial education for children can help children better understand and manage money and understand the importance of saving and rational consumption. This helps to cultivate children's financial awareness and self-care ability, so that they can understand the value and use of money from an early age.

Secondly, learning financial management can also improve children's mathematical and analytical skills, because financial management requires calculation, comparison and decision-making, which can cultivate children's logical thinking and problem-solving ability.

However, primary school students' intellectual and psychological development level is limited, and they may not fully understand complex financial management concepts and skills. Therefore, educators need to teach financial management knowledge in a way that children can understand and accept, so as to avoid children's premature exposure to overly complicated financial management concepts and investment methods.

In addition, educators need to pay attention to the balance between financial management knowledge and education in other disciplines, and don't put too much emphasis on financial management education to the detriment of learning in other disciplines.

To sum up, it is useful to educate children about financial management, but it is necessary to choose appropriate teaching methods and contents according to their actual situation, so that children can better understand and accept financial management knowledge, while not neglecting education in other disciplines.