The Dice Game

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The Dice Game

• Nick McMurry
• Grade 23

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Lesson Objective

• This lesson is going to build on the basic math
  functions (Addition, and subtraction) through the
  use of a game. The students will follow the
  rules of the math dice game. They will perform
  addition and subtraction in the game.

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Lesson Objective Cont

• They also will be checking each others work and
  providing help to each other when it is needed.
  They will keep track of their scores using a
  Microsoft excel spreadsheet which I will have
  provided for them.

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Learning Activity

• I will tell the students that this activity is
  meant to build on the skills which they already
  have in mathematics. We will be playing a game
  in which we are going to have to use simple math
  skills such as addition and subtraction.

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Learning Activity Cont

• This is a game in which we are going to use three
  normal die (die which are number one through six)
  and a sheet of paper to chart our results at
  first. Then we will place results in an excel
  program spreadsheet which I will provide.

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Learning Activity Cont

• We will make a tournament style bracket in which
  in the end we will have only one winner in the
  class. The bracket will be drawn by me on the
  white board with all of the teams names on it,
  the winner of the first game will then write
  their name on the line provided.

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Learning Activity Cont

• And after all of the first games are over we then
  will start the second round, the games will be
  determined by the brackets. After three or so
  rounds we will have a winner. The winner will
  receive a couple points of extra credit.

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Provide Information

• We will be getting in to groups of two or three,
  the names of the fifteen students will be placed
  in a list and numbered one through fifteen, not
  allowing the students to know what number they
  are.

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Provide Information Cont

• Next I will ask one student to pick a number (it
  doesnt really matter what student) whatever
  number he/she picks is then their teammate, and
  that persons name is marked off.

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Provide Information Cont

• The persons who has just been marked off then
  picks a number, the number that is picked is the
  beginning of the next team. Then that person
  picks a number representing their teammate, and
  then the process begins again in which that
  person is marked off the list and goes on to pick
  the start of the next team.

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Provide Information cont

• Go along with this process until all of the
  students are on a team, since there is going to
  be an odd number of students put the last student
  on the last team.

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Provide Information Cont

• The die game has a few rules which we must
  follow, first we must decide who is teammate
  number one and teammate number two. Player one
  will then grab two die (which are fair die, or
  numbered one through six) and role those two at
  the same time,

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Provide Information Cont

• they then will have to take the sum of these two
  die and write it down if needed (to help remember
  or possibly work out the following problem).

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Provide Information Cont

• Next player one must grab the third die and role
  that die, what ever the number is on the third
  die they must subtract that number from the
  number which represents the sum of the two
  previous die.

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Provide Information Cont

• The number which is obtained at this point in
  time is the number which they will have to write
  down. Next it is player two turn, following the
  same rules and processes.

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Provide Information Cont

• After the two have their first scores they will
  place them in the designated columns of the excel
  spreadsheet which I have given them. The
  students will also have to add their scores in
  this excel spreadsheet as they go, and the game
  ends when either player reaches a score of ten.

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Provide Information Cont

• Now I will sample the game for the students, I
  will roll the first two die and add the numbers
  which are shown. Then I will role the third die
  and subtract that number from the number
  represented by the sum of the previous two die.

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Provide Practice

• After I have shown an example to the entire class
  I will encourage the students to engage in a
  practice round. This round will not count
  towards either teammates total score,

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Provide Practice Cont

• this is just to see that everyone one can follow
  the order of operation with the die. First add
  then subtract, I will also make sure that no one
  is having trouble with the arithmetic.

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Provide Practice Cont

• This at first will be an individual exercise to
  ensure that each student understands, and is able
  to do the arithmetic. Then when we start the
  game it will be a group process to check each
  others work, and be just and fair when checking
  each others work.

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Provide Practice Cont

• Before we start the game I will have the students
  come up to the computer to inform them as to how
  and where to put their information in the excel
  spreadsheet.

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Knowledge of Results

• I will walk the class as the students are
  performing their practice exercises to see how
  they are doing, and if they are grasping the
  concept. I will provide any help that is needed,
  with the arithmetic or the rules of the game.

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Knowledge of Results Cont

• I will also encourage help between group members,
  and reinforce a job well done. I will encourage
  the students whom needs help as well on a job
  well done, and to continue working on the work
  given. There will be no practice exercises hand
  in so all reinforcing must be done in the class
  verbally.

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Assessment

• At the end of the activity the students will be
  given a worksheet with many of the same equations
  on it as they had just finished in the game. The
  students will finish this sheet, and it then will
  be graded, determining the students true grasps
  on the mathematical methods.