Performances may get better over a week period. The children now become involved in exploring how mathematics might help them in developing or confirming a fairly reliable strategy. In pairs, give the children a pair of dice and ask them to devise an experiment that will give them an indication of how often a 1 will appear. In developing their experiment, ask them to consider the number of throws they might need to make in order to give a fairly reliable conclusion. The children can express their result as a percentage or fraction, but they must be able to interpret their result in terms of a strategy for playing the game.
Players take turns to throw a pair of dice and add the totals.
If their total on the board has counters placed on it, they can remove ONE counter from that number. First person to get all of their counters off the board wins. Player Two Tell the children to play the game in pairs and write some questions that they might want to ask about this game. After the children have played the game ask them to comment on the effectiveness of their placements. Get each pair to roll the dice 50 times and record the results on a class chart.