Math Dice Games Your Kids Will Love

My students absolutely LOVE when we play math games using dice! We use dice to practice not only math facts, but just about any other math skill as well!  There is something about rolling dice that makes just about any math practice fun!

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You can use any regular set of dice for these games, or you can use this on-line virtual dice roller from your computer!  The nice thing about the virtual dice roller is that you can roll up to 60 dice at a time with ZERO noise!

Some game ideas:

Math Facts

Roll 2 dice and find the sum, difference, product, or quotient.

Challenge: Roll 3 dice and do the same as above.

Roll 2 dice and find the sum, difference, product, or quotient.

The picture above could be:

                                                   4 + 3 = 7

                                                   4 - 3 = 1

                                                   4 X 3 = 12

                                                   4 / 3 = 1 r. 1

Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction

Roll 2 - 5 dice.  Write down the number.  Roll again and add or subtract the second number from the first number. 

This could be:

                                 6,345 + 5,321 = 11,666 
                                                   or
                               
                                 6,345 - 5,321 = 1,024

Multi-Digit Multiplication

1. (2 digit X 1 digit) 

Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the product.

This would be:

46 X 6 = 276

2. (3 digit X 1 digit) 

Roll 3 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the product.

3. (2 digit X 2 digit) 

Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll the dice again.  Find the product.

Long Division

1. (2 digit divided by 1 digit) 
Roll 2 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the quotient.

This would be:

65 / 6 = 10 r. 5

2. (3 digit divided by 1 digit) 
Roll 3 dice.  Write down the number. Roll 1 dice.  Find the quotient.

Place Value

1. What is the place value of the ___?

Roll 2-6 dice depending on students level.  Then ask them what is the place value of each #?

This would be 152,414. 

So you could ask:

1. What is the place value of the 5? ten thousands

2. What value is the 2? 2,000

Challenge: You can increase the level by making the place values decimals.

2. Ten more, ten less

Roll 2 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is ten less or ten more.

Roll 3 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is one hundred less or one hundred more.

Roll 4 dice and have the students tell you what is the number that is one thousand less or one thousand more.

Rounding

Roll the dice and then round the number to the greatest place, hundreds place, tens place, etc.

This would be 6,511

rounded to the greatest place = 7,000

rounded to the hundreds place = 6,500

rounded to the tens place = 6,510

Geometry

Perimeter and area 

1. Roll the dice.  Write down the number.  Roll the dice again.  Use the two numbers to find the perimeter of a rectangle with those dimensions.

What would the area of that same rectangle be?

The perimeter would be 8 + 8 + 4 + 4 = 24 

and the area would be  8 X 4 = 32

or to make it challenging,

2. Roll one die.  What would the perimeter of an equilateral triangle with that length be?
What would the perimeter of a pentagon with that length be?
Shape identification
1. Roll one die.  What would the shape with that number of sides be?
What other math skills could you use dice for? I would love to hear your ideas!

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