Metropol

North/South/East/West

or

Forward/Aft/Port/Starboard/Climb the Rigging/Scrub the Deck

Latter was always a popular one in cubs and beavers

Could get them to throw the coins at each other.

Or you could play a variation on "snap", in which the snap conditions are: two of the same coin value (that is, two 50p pieces) and the same year of production, which as you may know is usually printed on the heads side of the coin.

Of course the only pre-requisite with this is that you have to check all the coins to ensure that at least one snap combination is available for each coin denominator going, otherwise the kids will eventually cotton on.

Alternatively you could just go by the year the coin was manufactured and get extra credit if two coins of the same value also happen to have the same production year on them.

A coin football/coin rugby/shove ha'penny tournament?

What about tossing coins to get them to land rim-side-up?

It can happen according to my mathematics teacher.

We were in a probability lesson, and he told us a story:

In a previous year's Prob' lesson, he was teaching a class about probability, &c., when he got to coins, one of the pupils asked:

"What if it lands rim-side-up [or something along those lines]?";

The teacher replied that it wouldn't. He went on to proceed to demonstrate a coin-toss.

To the class' dismay (and giggles), the coin landed rim-side-up.


I think he told this story, because one of the lesson-I-was-in's pupils asked "could it land rim-side-up?".

Currency test?

Ask which currency different countries use?

Who can roll their coin the furthest?

Get them to draw round the coins with pencil or marker pen.Then suggest they roll it from their forehead to their chin. For your own amusement of course. Or... Teach them how to press their own coins. I kid. They could probably tell you how to forge money