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An old game but lots of arithmetic!
Have a go at this game which involves throwing two dice and adding their totals. Where should you place your counters to be more likely to win?
Can you use the numbers on the dice to reach your end of the number line before your partner beats you?
A game for 2 people. Use your skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to blast the asteroids.
I throw three dice and get 5, 3 and 2. Add the scores on the three dice. What do you get? Now multiply the scores. What do you notice?
In this game, you can add, subtract, multiply or divide the numbers on the dice. Which will you do so that you get to the end of the number line first?
Find all the numbers that can be made by adding the dots on two dice.
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?
When you throw two regular, six-faced dice you have more chance of getting one particular result than any other. What result would that be? Why is this?
How could you arrange at least two dice in a stack so that the total of the visible spots is 18?
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?
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.
In this game you throw two dice and find their total, then move the appropriate counter to the right. Which counter reaches the purple box first? Is this what you would expect?
Use the interactivity or play this dice game yourself. How could you make it fair?
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
Simple dice and spinners tool for experiments.
Which of these dice are right-handed and which are left-handed?
A game for 1 person. Can you work out how the dice must be rolled from the start position to the finish? Play on line.
Play a dice game of chance
This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to. . . .
Can you beat Piggy in this simple dice game? Can you figure out Piggy's strategy, and is there a better one?
A tool for generating random integers.
This article takes a closer look at some of the toys and games that can enhance a child's mathematical learning.