Growing up I loved playing board games with my family. I continued that love of play when I had kids, and discovered so many awesome board, card, and dice games that bring us closer together. Zombie Dice is a great game that I found and played last summer with my 4 and 6 year olds. It's played with 13 dice in a cup where players take turns randomly selecting 3 dice from the cup and rolling them to get brains (points). After a player’s first roll (if they didn't unfortunately roll 3 blasts) they choose to either...
As I was playing with my kids I noticed that there were 3 different colored dice (green, yellow, and red) and wondered... are there different numbers of brains on each dice that relate to the color? What are my chances of rolling.... AND BOOM! My head exploded with ideas for my probability unit in A.P. Statistics. I developed the following lesson and used it with my students today. It was a hit! They were cheering and talking smack; it was awesome. We spent the first 30 minutes playing (I had to do a demo with a student while everyone gathered around and watched first) and then we did the lesson (took about 45 min).
Topics covered: probability, probability trees, independence.
If you play, let me know! Tell me how you'd tweak it. And even better, tell me how YOU incorporate board, card, and dice games in your classroom:) Happy playing!
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AuthorTracy Conte is a high school math teacher in Raleigh, NC. Archives
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