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Dice
Use the corner spanner icon to fully configure the gadget. Options include:
- number of dice
- dice style and colour
- size and position
- background.
Teaching tips:
Use this gadget to support your teaching or other classroom activities, for example:
Place value: choose how many dice you want, roll them and ask children to make the largest or smallest number possible or the largest/smallest odd or even number.
Number: Pick a ‘target’ number, for example 50, play with a partner or have children versus teacher and see who can reach the target number first by adding the numbers on their dice after each roll.
Test addition or multiplication of randomly generated numbers.
Roll a number, for example 368 and see if children can represent it in as many ways possible.
PE: roll a single dice and get children to touch that many parts of their body on the floor.
Other uses: Pick a child/group randomly by assigning them a colour and see which it lands on.
Or use them for traditional board games without dice rolling off the tables!
Place value: choose how many dice you want, roll them and ask children to make the largest or smallest number possible or the largest/smallest odd or even number.
Number: Pick a ‘target’ number, for example 50, play with a partner or have children versus teacher and see who can reach the target number first by adding the numbers on their dice after each roll.
Test addition or multiplication of randomly generated numbers.
Roll a number, for example 368 and see if children can represent it in as many ways possible.
PE: roll a single dice and get children to touch that many parts of their body on the floor.
Other uses: Pick a child/group randomly by assigning them a colour and see which it lands on.
Or use them for traditional board games without dice rolling off the tables!
Use this gadget to support your teaching or other classroom activities, for example:
- Test addition or multiplication of randomly generated numbers.
- Play a game to test pupils' skill with mixed operations by giving them a target number to get closest to using randomly generated numbers and any operators. - Pick a group at random by assigning them a colour.
- Test addition or multiplication of randomly generated numbers.
- Play a game to test pupils' skill with mixed operations by giving them a target number to get closest to using randomly generated numbers and any operators. - Pick a group at random by assigning them a colour.
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- Customisable games and activities targeting core maths, literacy and phonics skills
- Creative activities working with colours, shapes and sounds
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- Curriculum-links and activity search
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- Set assignments and collate results
- Play on desktop computers, laptops and tablets
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Schools have no limit on the number of pupils that can use Busy Things simultaneously.
