How it works
A card is a way to pay. It is still paying with coins.
The coins come from a safe place, and they hop across to the shop's jar. A card is not free money.
Worked examples
Tap the card
- The grown-up has no coins in hand.
- The grown-up taps a flat card on a little box.
- Beep! The shop hears it.
Where the coins go
- The safe place is where grown-ups keep their coins.
- When the card is tapped, coins hop out of it.
- Plink, plink, plink, they hop to the shop's jar.
Fewer coins
- Look at the safe place after paying.
- It has fewer coins.
- The card did not make new coins.
An empty safe place
- When the safe place is empty, there is nothing to send.
- Then the card cannot pay.
- So a card is not free money.
A taste of the worksheets
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
- The safe place is empty. What can the card do? ✨ Make new coins / 💳 Pay anyway / ✋ Nothing, it cannot pay