Maths and Muffins
09/12/08 22:10 Filed in: Highlights
Prince Philip's school had their Maths and Muffins
morning today. The kids were expected to appear with
a parent and siblings to the library at 8.15 am where
we all collected a game from the correct box and sat
playing it. We had one called the two tooney race.
Basically it was a spinner with penny, nickel, dime
and quarter written on it. (For those like me that
needed help - a penny is 1 cent, a nickel is 5 cents,
a dime is 10 cents, a quarter is 25 cents, a looney
is 1 dollar and a tooney is 2 dollars.) My son had
great fun correcting my efforts with a nickel and a
dime. He then reminded me that Nickelback got it's
name from the nickel in change that band member Mike
Kroeger gave customers at his Starbucks job—he
would frequently say, "Here's your nickel back".