Hi! I’m Dollar the Dragon. I’m here to teach you all about money. We use money in many different ways, and there are lots of tools to help us earn, save and spend money.

Barter only works as long as the things people are trading are worth approximately the same, and as long as two people want the things each other have.

The origin of the “$” sign has been accounted for in many ways, but the most widely accepted explanation is that the symbol is the result of evolution, independently in different places of the Mexican or Spanish “P’s” for pesos, or piastres, or pieces of eight.