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Friday, March 6, 2015

GOING TO BOSTON

Skills:
*Less than and greater than
*Addition
*Multiplication

Also known as Yankee Grab and Newmarket

Materials needed:
*3 dice
*Paper and pencil for scoring

How to play Going to Boston:

1.  Each player in turn rolls 3 dice.
2.  Choose the highest die and put it aside (write the number in the first column)
3.  Roll the two remaining dice and remove the highest number and write that number in the second column.
4.  Roll the remaining die and write that number in the third column.
5.  Add up the numbers from all three dice and record that score in the total column for the first round.
6.  The highest total score of all the players for each round wins the round.
7.  Play a number of rounds and either add up a combined score at the end or tally winning rounds to come up with a game champion.

Variations:
*Play with two dice for younger children
*Keep the lowest number for beginning mathematicians
*Increase the number of dice in the game to 4+ to practice more complicated addition skills
*MULTIPLICATION: take the sum of the first two dice and multiply it by the third

GOING TO BOSTON


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1st Die
2nd Die
3rd Die
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