Dice roll

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Distribute a 6-sided die, individual whiteboard, whiteboard marker and 10 counters to each student. Arrange students in a circle on the floor.
Ask students to predict what data they might be collecting.

Students roll their die 10 times and record their data in a dot plot using counters.

Students identify an exercise to complete, eg. star jumps, push ups.
Students draw their dot plot on their mini whiteboard with a title, x-axis and category labels.
Check student understanding by asking them to show their whiteboards.
Students roll their die 10 times, each time performing the number of exercises as identified by the dice roll, and record each roll on their whiteboard using counters.
Provide students with dot stickers and ask them to transfer their dot plot into their workbooks.
Conduct a gallery walk to share and view the classes dot plots.

Reduce the number of die rolls.
Use simpler dice, for example dot dice or 1–3 dice.
Use dice with larger numbers, for example, 0–9.
Students transfer their dot plot to a table and calculate the frequency of each number and total.

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