With cash, the coins move. With cards and apps, only numbers move.
With cash, the coins themselves change hands. Whoever holds the coins owns them.
With a card, a tap or an app, no coins move. The bank changes numbers in its book.
Digital money only works if the records are right, so banks keep them carefully and check them twice.
Cash still has strengths: it works with no power or signal, and it stays private.
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
None. Only the numbers move: Tom's goes down by 2 and the seller's goes up by 2.
It still works. Cash works with no power or signal.
Cash machines. Cash machines came from the 1960s, and shopping on computers in the 1990s.
Money is a promise we all agree on. Only how money moves has changed.
With a grown-up, count the ways they paid this week: cash, a card, a tap, an app. Which was used most?
Ask a grown-up to count the ways they paid this week: cash, a card, a tap or an app. Which was used most? Staying safe when paying online is a story in Digital Life.
