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Math Games with a

Pair of Dice

Games to play at home

to practice math skills

Multiplication/Division Chart

Tips for playing math games with dice:

 Contain the dice! Put your dice in a small plastic container. Kids shake the dice and read the numbers through the plastic.

 You can use dice from board games you may already have in the house. Don’t forget to put them back when you are done.  Most games can also be played with numbered cards as well.

Pig Players 2 Materials: 2 dice, scratch paper to keep score How to Play: Be the first one to reach 100 points! Players take turns rolling two dice and finding their sum. On a turn, a player can keep rolling – be a PIG - and add to their score. But beware – if a player rolls a 1 on either dice, all points for that turn are lost.

Examples: Joe rolls so his is 5. He keeps rolling, and gets for 6 points. Now his running score is 11. He can stop at 11 or keep going. He rolls one more time, for 9 points. Now his score is 20. He decides to stop and keep 20 for his score that round.

Jane rolls for 11 points. She rolls one more time and gets a. Since she rolled a 1, her score is 0 for that round.

Ten Frames Block Out

Players 2 Materials: 2 dice, graph paper, colored pencil or crayon for each player How to Play: Roll 2 dice and draw a rectangle using the numbers rolled as the length and width on graph paper. Continue until there is no room to draw any more rectangles. Add the areas of all your rectangles and the highest score wins.

2 x 3 3 x 3

5 x 2 4 x 3

101 and Out

Players 2

Materials: 1 die, scratch paper

How to Play: Copy the game board below. Roll the die six times. Each roll has to count. You can count the rolls as either ones or tens. Keep a running total as you play. The closest

to 101without going over wins.

1 1 or 10 4 4 or 40 2 2 or 20 5 5 or 50 3 3 or 30 6 6 or 60

Player 1

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10 + 50 + 4 + 20 + 4 + 3 = Total 91_

Player 2

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50 + 6 + 10 + 30 + 2 + 4 = Total 102 so out Player 1 wins!

Closest to 100 Players 2 Materials: 2 dice, 120 chart (optional), scratch paper How to Play: Roll two dice and create a 2- digit number.

This could make 53 or 35. Now, mentally find the difference between the 2- digit number and 100. One way to find the difference is to count up. For example, if a number rolled is 53, count up by 10s and then add the 1s to get to 100.

53 63 73 83 93 100 53 is 47 from 100 For each round, the score is the difference from 100. The player with a score closest to 100 after 5 rounds wins.

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