Money Wisdom Project

MWP is an organization dedicated to providing free resources on the history of money and Bitcoin for teachers, libraries & circular economies around the world.

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Ages 11 to 13 sit in the Logic Stage of the trivium. Students at this age are ready to handle abstraction. They want frameworks they can apply, not just stories they can remember.
This age band is the moment when the three functions of money become a usable tool.

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Unit of Account
\ˈyü-nət əv ə-ˈkau̇nt\ (n)
first recorded use: c. 1875
1: A common measure used to price goods, services, debts, and contracts
2: NUMERAIRE, MEASURE ~ the unit of account by which all other values are reckoned

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Children, ages 7 to 10, are ready for stories with cause and effect. They want to know why something happens. You can teach the "double coincidence of wants" using a story.

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Can you define money?
https://t.co/lJYmeBohkx

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What Is Money? A Question as Old as Civilization

Read more about how money has been defined over time: https://t.co/VwmukcxRts?

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Medium of Exchange
\ˈmē-dē-əm əv iks-ˈchānj\ (n)
first recorded use: c. 1690
1: An item widely accepted in trade so that buyers and sellers need not barter directly
2: INSTRUMENT, INTERMEDIARY ~ a medium of exchange standing between two parties in trade

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Children ages 4 to 6 (Grammar Stage) learn through their senses and repetition. Not theory. They are ready to hold something in their hands.

So the first lesson about money for little ones is not about counting coins. It is about what money replaces. So, set up a simple swap.

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For 2,500 years thinkers have argued about one question: what is money?
Aristotle, Menger, Mises, Smith. All trying to define the thing we use every day and barely understand.
The answer shapes everything.
#MoneyHistory #SoundMoney #MoneyWisdom

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Money
\ˈmə-nē\ (n)
first recorded use: c. 1290
1: Something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
2: COINAGE, CURRENCY, TENDER ~ the money in circulation across an economy
3: A store of value that holds purchasing power across time

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Three places to find Money Wisdom Project:
https://t.co/MtBPtHuQiL for free packets when they drop.
@MoneyWisdomProj here for daily lexicon and history.
The newsletter for first access to everything we publish.

#MoneyWisdom #TeachKidsAboutMoney

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What the Money Wisdom Project is not.
Not a personal finance curriculum.
Not a Bitcoin-only project.
Not waiting for committee approval.
Not behind a paywall.
Not preaching.
Not in a hurry.
What it is, is at https://t.co/MtBPtHuQiL.

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The Money Wisdom Project, in three lines:
Free curriculum on the history of money, direct to teachers and parents.
She Stacks Sats, community learning for women.
Volunteer-led translation, so the work travels.
https://t.co/MtBPtHuQiL

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Hi, I am Deanna Heikkinen, founder of the Money Wisdom Project.
EdD in education. Master's in history and anthropology. 15 years of teaching and writing curriculum. Author of Shells to Satoshi and Ownschooling.
This nonprofit is where all of that work goes next.

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Most adults were taught how to manage money. Almost none of us were taught what money is or where it came from.
The Money Wisdom Project exists to change that. Free curriculum, direct to teachers and parents.
https://t.co/MtBPtHuQiL

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May 25, 1787. The Constitutional Convention finally had enough delegates in the room to open for business. They spent that summer building a new framework for the country, and along the way, they decided what money would be.
Read the full post https://t.co/5CnnIu0NDX

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Most adults were taught how to manage money. Almost none of us were taught what money is or where it came from.
The Money Wisdom Project exists to change that. Free curriculum, direct to teachers and parents.
https://t.co/MtBPtHuQiL

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Even if you don't live in KY, read this. It's a way legislation can be used to prevent people from accessing BTC hardware wallets.

Whether it is a misunderstanding of the technology or more nefarious, your right to monetary privacy is at risk.

https://t.co/5iN82IZDXA

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If you read Smith today, don’t just look for quotations. Watch how a moral philosopher builds a vision of a commercial society based on liberty, responsibility, and the quiet coordination of countless individual plans.

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On this day in 1776, Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” was published, a book that quietly rewired how we think about trade, markets, and the power of individual choice. 🧵

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250 years later, “Wealth of Nations” still challenges us: trust free people to make their own choices, let markets signal where resources are valued most, and treat concentrated power, public or private, with deep suspicion.