Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal...

Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects us all. He tells the fascinating story of money, the key factors that shaped its development, and the lessons that can be learned from its history....

While Scott is attending the his after-school program in the library, he sees a variety of objects on a big table such as shells, stones, and beads. He wonders what these items have to do with money and he soon learns what money in the ancient world was made of.

This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to count and classify coins and paper money and sort them into categories. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning how to identify and sort different forms of money.

With rhyming text, explains the basics of counting and using money, covering the types of bills and coins, the value of each, and how to combine the denominations to buy different items.

Jody hasn't been lucky at winning prizes at the games at the beach. Now her little brother has his heart set on one prize and Jody wants to win it for him.