Deciding Decimals With Dice
This is a quick and easy rotations game, where students roll up to 10 dice and lay them out on their card to create decimal addition and subtraction problems to solve on their own, or to exchange with a partner. Laminate and keep these cards or print them while you are running late for class, either way your students are going to enjoy trying to stump each other with the questions they create.
The game is a part of a larger unit that was written to help your Year 6 students add and subtract decimals and develop estimates through rounding to check their answers.
Learning goals
- We are learning to apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals and to use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of our answers.
- We are learning to estimate and approximate solutions to problems involving rational numbers and percentages.
- We are learning to add and subtract decimals and use estimation and rounding to check answers.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
In addition to rolling the dice, students can flip a coin to decide if they are making an addition or subtraction question.