This section provides study questions that require critical thinking skills based on the content of Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the various functions of money and contrast commodity money and fiat money.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Utilize the money multiplier formulate to determine how banks create money, analyze and create T-account balance sheets, evaluate the risks and benefits of money and banks.

This section summarizes the key concepts presented in Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

This section provides self-check study questions to aid in understanding the content of Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

This is a list of key terms and definitions covered in Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

This section features three problems to solve pertaining to the content of Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

This section provides review questions to aid in studying the content of Ch. 13: Money and Banking from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Contrast M1 money supply and M2 money supply and classify monies as M1 money supply or M2 money supply.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Defining money by its functions; Measuring money-currency; M1, and M2; The role of banks; and How banks create money.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain how banks act as intermediaries between savers and borrowers; evaluate the relationship between banks, savings and loans, and credit unions; and analyze the causes...

Archived images of coins from a beautiful online exhibition on the history of money.

Explore the past, present, and future of money. Learn about exchange rates, money forms, banking, and more.

This is a list of key terms and definitions covered in Ch. 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.

Comprehensive overview of the development of money in the American colonies. Topics covered include colonial coins and paper money, national coinage, copper, silver, and gold coins, and Liberty and the eagle.

A workbook for children on how to save and manage their money, and how to create a budget.

Explores the early history of central banking in the United States, describing the evolution of banking from the late 1700s through the Great Depression, with a special focus on the Fed's role in the Depression.

This page from the IHA provides the history of and facts about the First Bank of the United States.

This is the first of four lessons on banking for elementary young scholars. This lesson provides the students with information on banking; it also allows them to try out some procedures for thinking about money and banking. There is a...

Blossom and Snappy learn about money and banking. The puppets want to buy something for Robbie for her birthday, so they decide to do some chores to earn money. Once they've earned some money, they go to the bank to open up bank accounts.

Fairy tales have always been used to give lessons about life. The story of Jack and the Bean Stalk is a good lesson plan about the importance of knowing about money and banks. The story of Jack asks the question, "What is money?"

In this seven-question exercise, practice calculating key outcomes, reading balance sheets, and drawing conclusions about what banks can do in the expansion of the money supply.

This page provided by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing gives the the history of paper money from the colonial notes in 1690 to the currency redesigns of 1996 and 2003.

A comprehensive site about saving money, with information on history of credit unions, money words, games about money, and more. Enter one of the three areas, each targeting a different age level.