Lesson: Money Economics

Students will be able to

• know the definition and disadvantages of bartering, such as requiring double coincidence of wants, lacking divisibility, and difficulty in storing value,
• understand how money was developed to overcome the disadvantages of bartering,
• know the characteristics of the types of money, such as commodity money, coins, banknotes (paper money), and bank deposits (credit),
• know different means of electronic payments, such as credit cards, debit cards, ATM cards, and stored-value cards, and understand how they are processed,
• distinguish electronic money by the method of authentication: smart cards are hardware based, while digital money is software based,
• understand the essential functions of money, such as being a medium of exchange, unit of account, general purchasing power, and store of value,
• understand general acceptability as a characteristic of money.