Maths and Muffins

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".