Thursday, May 5, 2011

Dice in a Dice

Want a way to work on math concepts that moves beyond simple paper and pencil tasks? I enjoy using different kinds of dice. One of my favorite dice are called Dice in Dice or Double Dice. Each die holds a smaller die inside. Some ideas for using these include playing board games and dice games like Yahtzee. If you are working on math facts try throwing one die and adding the 2 numbers together. You can also throw 2 dice and then add the 2 numbers from each double die and take the 2 sums and multiply the numbers together. (Example: Die #1: 4 + 6 Die #2: 2 + 3 = 10 x 5 = 50) There are lots of possibilities with this type of dice.

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