When I first read this math post from Alice Keeler, I saw it as a math game (you can probably tell I never taught math and probability was always the last chapter in the book and got very little time!).
But The Greedy Pig is a chance to put probability into play. One die is rolled and everyone records it. You continue to add on the next 4 rolls (unless a 1 is rolled- then everyone loses their points). Yet you can elect to stop at any point.
While Alice offers a Google Slides Add in (something that would be hard to do in school), I think the game works just as well without it. Be sure to see the link (in the first paragraph) with some suggestions on strategy.
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