Money has taken many forms through the ages: shells, wheels, beads and even cows. All forms, though, have always had three things in common. Find out what in this eight-minute podcast. You will also learn how commodity money differs from representative money and how both differ from today's fiat money.

Overview of the Geithner Plan and the problem it is supposed to solve. Created by Sal Khan.

More on the Geithner Plan. The problem of banks buying the assets from themselves. Created by Sal Khan.

More exotic ways that a bank could buy transfer exposure to the taxpayer. Created by Sal Khan.

Constructing an investment where an investor gets the same upside while the program limits the downside. Created by Sal Khan.

A better way to solve the "liquidity" and "price discovery" problem. Created by Sal Khan.

Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room. Die Schüler werden innerhalb eines Budgets arbeiten, um Möbelstücke zu finden, um ihr Wohnheimzimmer zu dekorieren.  Students will practice describing furniture and using terms related to money.  Die Schüler üben die Beschreibung von Möbeln und die Verwendung von Begriffen, die mit Geld zu tun haben.

ŕThe Go-Around DollarĚŇ is a selection that combines two genres: realistic fiction and expository text. It provides an entertaining look at the journey of a dollar as it passes through the hands of various characters.

In this course, your students will play the role of a freshman lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives trying to serve his or her constituents' goals and the long-term goals of the United States. Along the way, they'll learn about the federal budget process and how federal government initiatives and programs are funded.

In this final module of the Grade 1 curriculum, students bring together their learning from Module 1 through Module 5 to learn the most challenging Grade 1 standards and celebrate their progress. As the module opens, students grapple with comparative word problem types. Next, they extend their understanding of and skill with tens and ones to numbers to 100. Students also extend their learning from Module 4 to the numbers to 100 to add and subtract. At the start of the second half of Module 6, students are introduced to nickels and quarters, having already used pennies and dimes in the context of their work with numbers to 40 in Module 4. Students use their knowledge of tens and ones to explore decompositions of the values of coins. The module concludes with fun fluency festivities to celebrate a year's worth of learning.

Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

A primer of why Greece is in a tough situation (more in future videos). Created by Sal Khan.

What Greece could have done if it had its own currency. Created by Sal Khan.

Proficiency LevelNovice LowNCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can ask and answer questions about what something is.I can ask and answer questions about the price of one object among a group of items.I can describe the location of an object to help someone understand the item I’m talking about.

In this problem-based learning module, students will research the needs vs wants of a typical family in the US. They will also research  the basic bills a typical family pays throughout a month, create a budget plan for a fictional family assigned to each group, and present budgets to authentic audience.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about identifying greater and lesser amounts.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about comparing bills with pictures.