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Dollars and Sense

From Schoolhouse Rock! · 1994

Dollars and Sense
3 min3rd4th5th6thMathSocial Studies
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Summary

A song about borrowing money and paying it back with interest, teaching the basics of loans and why borrowing costs more than you started with.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A song about borrowing money and paying it back with interest, teaching the basics of loans and why borrowing costs more than you started with..

  1. What does it mean to borrow money?
  2. Why do you pay back more than you borrowed?
  3. When might borrowing be a smart or risky choice?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: borrow, loan, interest.

Try it: If you borrow $10 and pay back $12, how much was the interest?