This unit provides secondary school students with methods for comparison shopping of savings institutions. It contains both student materials and teacher's guide and is designed for individualized instruction. Approximate time for the unit is six hours. Activities include analyzing cartoons, defining the terms "savings" and "interest," listing long-term and short-term reasons for saving money, surveying advertisements of savings and loan institutions, and calculating simple and compound interest through algebraic formulas. The activities are presented in dialogue form with cartoon illustrations. The teacher's guide includes reproducible pre- and posttests and worksheets with keys and lists materials needed. (KC)