Practise comparing and ordering numbers (recognising the value of the place of a digit).

(From Paul Swan’s Dice Games)

You need six 6 faced dice, a piece of paper with 10 lines and a pencil. You can use two, three, four or five dice too depending on the player’s knowledge of numbers.

It is fun to play this game together in a pair supporting each other to fit in as many numbers as you can.

One person rolls the six (or selected quantity of) dice and makes the largest number they can. Eg. if I roll 3,4,5,2,2,1,  I would make 543 221 as the highest number. I write that at the bottom of the sheet of paper.

Second person rolls the six dice and makes the smallest number. Eg. If I roll 4,4,3,1,5,2, I would make 123 445.

Now take turns to roll the six dice and record a number between the smallest and largest numbers.

Each new number is written on a selected line, if you cannot form a number with your roll of dice in ascending order, no matter what order you place the digits in, the game stops.

Think carefully where you write your numbers.

Please share with me your attempts, can you make ten numbers without getting out?

Have fun,

Stephanie van der Schans