Activity Description Experiment with the outcome distribution for a roll of two dice by simulating a dice throwing game. Parameters: Which player wins with which total rolled.

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Dice Table

Place in mathematics curriculum:

This activity can be used to:

• practice students' fraction, decimal and percent manipulation skills
• introduce the notions of chance and probability
• motivate the notion of random numbers
• motivate ideas from combinatorics

This activity allows the user to calculate the probability of each number (2-12) appearing when two dice are rolled. This activity would work well in same ability groups of two to four for about twenty to twenty-five minutes if you use the exploration questions and ten minutes otherwise.

Preparations for this activity:

• permit calculators or stop the whining about not having calculators quickly and permanently
• answer the question "How do I change a fraction to a decimal?"
• discuss ways to convert from fractions to decimal to percentages and back.