Counting cash is part of the Learning Experience for Children

As a teacher, I recall doing the same in key skills lessons, tutor time and even foreign language lessons and utilising pretend coins and notes — both domestic and foreign, before moving on to cheques, cards, hire purchase and mortgages.

However, a growing trend towards a cashless society and the pandemic supercharging the increase in contactless payment only signs, have become common at checkout tills.

Studies have shown, children form their money habits as early as seven years old, as their gaze fixates on watching parents and others make monetary transactions.

But what happens when physical cash cannot be used?

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