Glen Huon Primary School
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801 Glen Huon Rd
Glen Huon TAS 7109
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Email: glen.huon.primary@decyp.tas.gov.au
Phone: 03 6266 6240

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Towers Of Dice

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How many dice do you have at home?

What’s the tallest tower you can make?

Maybe start off with a smaller tower.

Now ask yourself

What is the sum of all the dots visible?

Is there another order you could add them in to help you to add up more easily?

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Extending prompts:         What is the sum of all the dots you can’t see?

                                      Is there a clue from your first sum to help you with this?

 

What about…                  What is the total of all the faces that are touching another die’s face?

                                     (remember - Die is one, dice means more than one)

Enabling Prompts:           What is the number of dots on the bottom of your top die?

                                     What do the top and bottom of any die add up to?
So, what should be on the opposite side of a  
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, or a   
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What questions could you solve with this stack?
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Please, Create and record some of your questions to share with me back at school.

Enjoy, Stephanie van der Schans, AST/Numeracy.