World 09
Money, entrepreneurship, economics, value, leadership and contribution
Long before coins, children learn that things are made by someone, that choosing one means not choosing another, and that giving something can bring something back.
Exchange at the market: hand over the coin, receive the fruit. Two choices, not ten. Name the trade aloud — we chose the plums, so not the pears today.
Money is mathematics with consequences.
Making something useful for someone else.
Where things come from and who made them.
The intellectual architecture
Enterprise teaches consequence faster than any other domain: the stall either sold out or it did not. It is also where economics, ethics and mathematics meet a real number.
Questions worth a childhood
Underneath
Economics · Business · Accounting · Marketing · Economic history
Where it can lead: Economics, Business, Finance, Public policy, Development studies, Entrepreneurship.
Concepts carried here: systems, proportion and rate, scarcity, value and exchange, representation and abstraction, ethical reasoning — the same ideas recur in other Worlds, which is the point.
0–18, and what changes
Waiting · Possession
Becomes able to: waits briefly.
Demonstrated when: Hands something over and expects its return.
Swapping · Money buys things
Becomes able to: trades deliberately.
Demonstrated when: Proposes a swap and argues it is fair.
Limited money · Wants compete
Becomes able to: chooses between two purchases.
Demonstrated when: States what they gave up, unprompted.
Making costs something · Profit
Becomes able to: calculates what their product cost.
Demonstrated when: A price set from a real cost calculation.
Supply, demand, competition
Becomes able to: explains a price change.
Demonstrated when: Predicts a price movement and checks it.
Incentives shape behaviour · Gains from trade
Becomes able to: traces an incentive's side effect.
Demonstrated when: An incentive found that produced the opposite of its intention.
Cash flow · Margin · Externalities
Becomes able to: keeps accounts; identifies who bears a hidden cost.
Demonstrated when: Accounts from a real venture with an externality named.
Public goods · Regulation · Inequality
Becomes able to: argues for or against intervention.
Demonstrated when: An evidenced essay resolving efficiency against fairness.
Institutions · Growth and distribution · Development
Becomes able to: evaluates competing explanations.
Demonstrated when: An analysis using real datasets with its limitations stated.
Genuine connections
Qualification mapping
All supported systemsSupports preparation
Market structures, costs and evaluation are directly relevant.
Conceptually aligned
The internal assessment's real-organisation focus matches WSA venture work.
Supports preparation
Conceptual overlap is strong; examination technique is separate preparation.
Related
Content overlap; NSC assessment requires an approved route.
The World School Atelier does not award, register or guarantee any qualification. These are mappings that show where your child's demonstrated work sits in relation to external frameworks, so that a family can plan. Entry requirements, specifications and recognition change; verify each with the awarding body before making decisions.