Introduction: Simple and Compound Interest

Learning Objectives

The leaning objectives for this section include:

  • Calculate one-time simple interest, and simple interest over time
  • Determine APY given an interest scenario
  • Calculate compound interest

We have to work with money every day. While balancing your checkbook or calculating your monthly expenditures on espresso requires only arithmetic, when we start saving, planning for retirement, or need a loan, we need more mathematics.