Free Game and Grapic

Here is a game we created for and perfected through our on campus club that meets before school at our local junior high. It works for generally any size group, and the best part is that it can be played just about anywhere that has chairs....

 

In the game "Use Your Head" you give each student a penny and tell them to make a circle of inward facing chairs (basically the opposite of how you would for musical chairs). You then tell the kids to put the penny on top of their head and sit down. Through out the game they will be given  "simple"  math problems and a direction. For example you may say, "Take the square root of nine and go that many chairs to the left" or "Multiply three by seven, subtract fifteen, and go that many right". Now there are two ways that people can get out in this game. The first is if they are the last one to be seated. The second is if they drop their coin in the hustle and bustle of trying to quickly get around the circle. The game ends in a show down of wits with the last two standing.

 

Note: It helps to have your math problems worked out beforehand.