I bought a tub of 72 double-dice (a die within a die) at Lakeshore last summer, and I've found that there are there are sooo many ways to use these little guys. At the beginning of the year, I used them to help my students with addition fluency. Students had to add the number of pips on each die to get the total sum of pips, writing the equations in their math journals. (Yep, the little dots on dice are called pips.) My kids were amazed when I told them they weren't just called "dots," and even more amazed that I knew about this. All the things I teach them every day, and this is the piece of knowledge that makes them think I'm a genius who knows everything. Go figure.
