Roll These Dice

Roll two red dice and a green dice. Add the two numbers on the red dice and take away the number on the green. What are all the different possibilities that could come up?

Dice and Spinner Numbers

If you had any number of ordinary dice, what are the possible ways of making their totals 6? What would the product of the dice be each time?

Taking a Die for a Walk

Investigate the numbers that come up on a die as you roll it in the direction of north, south, east and west, without going over the path it's already made.

The Path of the Dice

Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Why do this problem?

This game is suitable for your pupils who can approach hard challenges. It will give them the opportunity to make use of their spatial awareness and their ability to put into action some systems that they think will work. It can also be a useful tool for pupils to learn from their mistakes.

Possible approach

It would be good to have a try at this game yourself first before deciding to present it to the pupils.
Take a dice and show the slow rolling of that dice forwards, backwards, right and left. This can of course be replicated by the first interactivity. The pupil or pupils that you think are ready for this should be invited to explore the changes that take place with these $4$ types of movement.
When they're explored the dice for a while then present the challenge as shown.

Key questions

What sorts of things have you noticed?
Have you come to any decisions? What are they?
Tell ne about what you've done.
Tell me about what you've decided to do to get a solution?

Possible extension

Explore all the possible moves starting from all the different positions a dice can start from.

Possible support

Some pupils with poor motor control may need help when exploring with real dice.

Generalising. Visualising. Interactivities. Practical Activity. Working systematically. Tangram. Dice. Games. Compound transformations. Cubes.

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