Dicing with decimals: Numeracy activities that work

Again, I’m not entirely sure where I picked this one up… might be a hat tip to Rodney Y… Anyway, it’s really simple to set up and needs no resources apart from normal dice.

Purpose

• Practice adding decimals.
• Practice using decimal place value.

EquipmentŸ

• Standard six-sided dice.
• One playing board per player. See the image below.

Object

• To get as close to 9.9 as possible. 

Rules

• ŸPlayers take it in turns rolling the dice and recording their result in either the “ones” place or “tenths” place.
• Each player must have 7 rolls of the die.
• After 7 rolls the players tally their scores and the closest to 9.9 is the winner.