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Champion of the world

In this Core Maths activity students are invited to play a game using non-transitive dice, and explore the probability behind them.

Champion of the world: Teacher guide
This teacher guidance gives an overview of the task including prior student knowledge, suggested approaches and possible extensions.

Champion of the world: presentation
This PowerPoint presentation introduces the activity and explains how to become dice-throwing ‘champion of the world’.

Champion of the world: Special dice
This resource explains how best to set up the activity and includes diagrams of the special dice. 

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