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Credit

Learn about different types of credit and how they work.

Different Types of Credit
Different types of credit have many advantages and disadvantages. This is about three types of credit, credit cards, bank loans, or financing with no payment for 6 months.

Credit Cards
One type of credit is a credit card. It has many advantages such as not having to carry around cash. However, there are also many disadvantages. One is that if you lose it someone else could pick it up and spend it, forging your signiture, until it reaches its limit, which is usually thousands of dallars. Also, you can pick your limit and spend up to it but still not have the money to pay off the bill. Then people would come and reclaim your items.

Bank Loans
Bank loans are another type of credit that has a good and bad side. They're good because if you don't have enough money for a car or house you really need you can get a loan and pay it off in installments. But on the bad side, you may not be able to pay it off which can have terrible consequences. Also, in the end you usually pay at least $1,000 in interest.

Financing With No Payment For Six Months
A third type of credit is financing with no payment for six months. Well, that could be good because you don't have the money now and are getting a raise soon, but still, you have to pay just as much in six months as you do now. There is not a discount. So it does not help or do anything at all if your money situation is not going to be better.

Overview
There are many advantages and disadvantages to different types of credit. You'll just have to decide which means more to you, the advantages or disadvantages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunshine State Standards 6-8

Social Studies/Economics

Standard 1: The student understands how scarcity requires individuals and institutions to make choices about how to use resources.(SS.D.1.3)

Objective 2: Understands the advantages and disadvantages of various kind of credit (e.g., credit cards, bank loans, or financing with no payment for six months.)

Amusement Park Activity

Do people use cash or credit more in amusement parks?- Take a survey of your class figuring out what type of money, cash, or credit they usuallt use in amusement parks.

 

Brainstorming Fun

Idea 1. Do you and your friends
have different opinions about
cash and credit? Discuss the
pros and cons about cash and
credit.

Idea 2. Discuss situations in
which it would be better to use
cash or credit.

Vocabulary

Credit- Time given for payment
for goods or services sold on
trust.

Financing- To sell something to
on credit.

Interest- A charge for borrowed
money generally a percentage of
the amount borrowed.

Advantages- A factor or
circumstance of benefit to its
possessor.

Disadvantages- Loss or damage
especially to reputation, credit,
or finances.

 

 

Did You Know?

Millennium Force at
Cedar Point has a track
length of 6595 feet. That's
1.25 miles!