Sal Khan explains the limited happiness that comes from buying things. Greater value comes from the freedom money gives you focus on your passions. [0:58]

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Students learn about the major factors that comprise the design and construction cost of a modern bridge. Before a bridge design is completed, engineers provide overall cost estimates for construction of the bridge. Students learn about the components that go into estimating the total cost, including expenses for site investigation, design, materials, equipment, labor and construction oversight, as well as the trade-off between a design and its cost.

Various listening examples of native speakers in different dialects describing the process of buying clothing and conversations to have with the sales clerk. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along. Great way to bring native speakers into the classroom and increase vocabulary!

The purpose of this task is to present students with a context that can naturally be represented with an inequality and to explore the relationship between the context and the mathematical representation of that context; thus, this is an intended as an instructional task.

The purpose of this task is to address the concept of opportunity cost through a real world context involving money.

Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just today but in a way that's sustainable over time.

The value of money is determined by how much (or how little) of it is in circulation. But who makes that decision, and how does their choice affect the economy at large? Doug Levinson takes a trip into the United States Federal Reserve, examining how the people who work there aim to balance the value of the dollar to prevent inflation or deflation. [3:52]

A timeline of coinage history in Ancient Rome and how debasement helped lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fourth graders about using the four operations with money - word problems.

At this site you will find interactive activities, maps, photos, and even audio and video clips for studying the cultures of the world.

This resource introduces students to the world of money with this online tutorial. Each unit has its' own online quiz. Brave the desert, climb mountains and dodge alligators while you explore everything there is to know about earning, spending, saving, and investing.

From the Smithsonian, this site offers lessons and resources on currency, its use (in the form of gold dust, salt, or metal objects) as an instrument of trade in historic Africa, and its requirements as an instrument of trade in the classroom.

Pigs, rice, nuts, teeth, eggs, feathers - these are all types of currency! This lesson discusses different types of objects that can be used as currency and students will decide what qualities make an effective currency. Included are examples of currency from Conga and worksheets. Students will design their own currency to complete the lesson.

A lesson on the system of currency used by the Akan people of Ghana and how it compares to systems used today.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about which amount is not equal to a given amount of money?.

In reading and discussing Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, students examine basic economic concepts and explore the growth of labor unions and the role of government in a market economy.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of money.

This site contains a unit on budgeting money for use by middle school teachers. Includes enrichment problems, a bibliography, and many example problems and situations.

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Imam Bashar Arafat, a scholar and interfaith leader in Baltimore, Maryland, describes zakaat, an almsgiving tax that Muslims pay annually. [2:01]