Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition of Three Digits


Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition!
A Quick and Easy To Prep Dice Game
You will ♥love♥ this game! 
I made it up one year because my plan lesson ended sooner than I thought & the natives were getting restless, they loved it SOOOOO much that we turned it into a tournament the next day! The best part about the game is that it is completely LUCK, so your lowest student can be the grand prize winner and your smartest of the smart might end up in last place

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition!

However, it is great for reinforcing multiplication and calculator skills for everyone. It can also be revised to be addition instead, so it is really a great K - 4th game!
Directions:
Pair students up, or let them pick partners.
Everyone gets 3 dice each and their own calculator.
Students roll all three dice at the same time.
Each child multiplies their 3 digits to get a final answer.
THEN...they must check each other's work with their calculator. {This gives them another problem to work & it helps to stop any 'cheating' problems!}
The winner is the student with the highest answer.
Record your tallies on a sheet of paper.
Play until one student gets 10 points. This also helps with the mental math of "three to go and I win" or "I only need 1 point to tie" etc.
Then congratulate your winner, "Great Job!"
Say something nice to the loser, "Good Game!"
Move around the room and watch another game until someone is done, then play a new partner!

Then, like real life, we figure out some better ways to control the dice. One child said, "After you roll the dice, put them in the cover of the calculator!"

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition!
Then another child figured out we could roll the dice INSIDE the calculator cover & they would never hit the floor! I just love it when I'm learning new things from their creativity! :)
Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Quick and Easy to Prep Dice Game for Multiplication or Addition!

This game made for some great discussion at the end of class. How rolling a 1 stinks because anything times 1 "says their name" and stays the same. How the greatest answer is 216 because 6*6*6= 216. They thought of lots of interesting things & I wish I had taken a picture of the anchor chart with their stickie notes! 

Anyway, the next day we played it like a basketball tournament. Winners continued to play each other and losers moved on to play each other...it was a lot of fun! True to what I had hoped, the lowest student in the class was the WINNER! The loser? I had said that the smartest of the smart could be the loser because it is completely a game of LUCK! Number 12, the bottom of the heap was ME! I lost the entire game & not because I wasn't trying! 

The kids loved the game even more! :)
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Time for a TeacherspayTeachers Sale-ebration Giveaway!

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My Friend Diane at TeachWithMe is celebrating her one year anniversary on TPT by having a 20% off sale. Diane is one of my favorite online cyber buddies. I am giving away three of her terrific resources this weekend....visit this post on Facebook and leave a comment about which of these three resources you would like to win as you head into summer! I will give away three resources for every ten comments, so tag a friend and get them to enter too!

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Memorial Day Color For Fun FREEBIE!

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Memorial Day Color for Fun Coloring Pages and Thank You Stationary Freebie at TeacherspayTeachers!

This THANK YOU FREEBIE for my followers has six writing papers that can be used as Thank You Letters to your military family and friends. Also included are 20 coloring pages of the different branches of the military.

Use it as a class project during this busy time of year and then send them to:
A Million Thanks
17853 Santiago Blvd. #107-355
Villa Park, CA 92861

Or you can also Google "Where to send a thank you to our veterans and military." for more organization that are willing to help.

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Memorial Day Thank You Freebie!

Fern Smith's Memorial Day Themed Time to the Five Minute Go Fish, Old Maid, Concentration
Memorial Day is a time when we stop and remember the men and women who died while serving in the armed forces. There have been so many conflicts in recent years, that many of our students are touched by this.  We feel strongly that we, as educators, should find the time to teach our students the real meaning of this holiday. I know it is hard to incorporate Social Studies into your "test" packed elementary world. Here is a math center for time, perfect to review time at your math center at the end of the year, with a Memorial Day theme.

Three Different Games with clock cards!
Go Fish, Old Maid and Concentration
* Center Folder Cover
* Math Center Folder Sign
* Common Core Listings for Lesson Plans
* Teacher’s Directions
* Three Different Student’s directions, one for each game
* Center Game Cards

* Answer Key / Student Self-Check Sheets





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Five Back to School Word Searches for a Whole Week of Fun!

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Five Back to School Word Searches for a Whole Week of Fun at TeacherspayTeachers.
Five Back to School Word Searches for a Whole Week of Fun!

This Back to School resource includes:
FIVE No Prep Printable word searches and five answer keys!

These high interest black and white printables are great for morning work, seat work, homework or small group work.


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Answer Keys Included!
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Free Memorial Day Word Search & Answer Key!

Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas Free Memorial Day Word Search & Answer Key at TpT
Free Memorial Day Word Search & Answer Key!
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It's a One Year Sale-Ebration at TpT!

 
My Friend Diane at TeachWithMe is celebrating her one year anniversary on TPT by having a 20% off sale. Diane is one of my favorite online cyber buddies. She has this free document that you can download here on TPT that explains all her plans with the sale and freebies for her followers this week! 

♥ Head over there and tell her Fern sent you! ♥

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Make New Friends Color Your Answers!

  Fern SMith's Classroom Ideas Make New Friends Color Your Answers Addition!
Just Published Today! This color by code resource has FIVE printables and FIVE matching answer keys. These printables are perfect for your students' desk during the first week of school. Fun, perfect for a review and engaging enough to give you, the teacher, time to do all those tasks required each day at the start of school.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Addition-2545252
 
  Fern SMith's Classroom Ideas Make New Friends Color Your Answers Number!
Just Published Today! This color by code resource has FIVE printables and FIVE matching answer keys. These printables are great to give you a little time to pack up your room at the end of the year. {Click here to read my post about that!}
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