Show Me the Money!

Show Me the Money! is the fifth segment of 180 Software Stage B. It's about one thing everybody loves--money!

5.1 Making Money, Comprehension: Main Idea, Summarizing, Understand Vocabulary, Sequencing, Read for Details, Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solutions.
The Treasury Department is a busy place. About 700 million dollars is made there every day! First, they make a big, sticky mix. Then they clean and dry the mix. This mix becomes paper. The paper feels like cloth. Next, they print faces on the paper. Last, the paper is cut into millions of bills. One day this money could be yours!

5.2 Bogus Bills, Comprehension: Main Idea, Summarizing, Understand Vocabulary, Read for Details, Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solutions.
Some people cheat the government. They make millions of fake bills every year. These cheaters are called counterfeiters. Counterfeiters use computers to make fake money. The government wants to stop counterfeiting. So, it uses new methods to beat counterfeiters. The government also sends counterfeiters to jail for a long time.

5.3 Fighting Forgery, Comprehension: Main Idea, Summarizing, Understand Vocabulary, Sequencing, Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solutions.
The government wants to stop people from making fake money. So, it makes money hard to copy. The government puts tiny words on the 100-dollar bill. A special mark is also made in the paper. Thanks to these things, money is harder to copy. Even so, some fake money still makes it into banks.

===5.4 Mangled Money, Comprehension: Summarizing, Understand Vocabulary, Sequencing, Read for Details, Drawing Conclusions, Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Problem and Solutions.=== Money often gets mangled. People tear and burn bills. Some bills even get eaten by animals! So the government has to make money strong. To do this, the government tests bills. They test them in a washer and dryer. They also bake bills under hot lamps. Even so, bills can still turn into mangled money.