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This is a beginning introduction to American money: a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter and a dollar bill. This is an interactive Powerpoint that engages students and requires them to participate in identifying different coins and a one dollar bill and helps them recognize the value of each.

This PPT, created by Reid Frederickson, describes the evolution of money around the world to the form we use today in the United States. It starts with the earliest form of exchange: bartering. It then shows the progression, from using various commodities, such as cowrie shells in China, tally sticks in England, stones in the Pacific islands, to today's use of paper currency and electronic forms of exchange in the United States and around the world. There are 26 slides with pictures, descriptio