Description
How it works
Everyone puts two counters in the bowl to start. On your turn you roll two dice and must say the sum out loud before doing anything else. Roll a sum under 10 (other than 2) and you pay the difference between your sum and 10 into the bowl. Roll 10 or more and you sweep the bowl. Roll snake eyes and every other player pays two. Last player holding counters wins. Saying the sum aloud first is the rule that makes it work — it forces the calculation into the open where it can be checked.
What you’ll need
- Two dice
- Twenty counters per player
- A bowl for the pot
Skills practiced
Addition within 12, finding the distance to 10, and comparing a sum against a threshold.
Grade level
1st through 4th grade. The rules are easy to extend — add a doubles rule, for instance, to emphasise whichever facts you are working on.
Instant PDF download. Game instructions adapted from the ideas in Math Fact Fluency by Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling (ASCD / NCTM, 2019).
