{"id":1924,"date":"2021-11-02T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T21:49:17","slug":"challenge-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/challenge-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dicey Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2021\/11\/Dice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1925 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/files\/2021\/11\/Dice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<div id=\"ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContainer_cphContent_dzContentArea_uxColumnDisplay_ctl00_uxControlColumn_ctl00_uxWidgetHost_uxWidgetHost_widget_pnlScenario\" class=\"pow_scenario\">\n<div class=\"problem\">\n<p>Jamie made up a new dice game. Two players each roll an ordinary six-sided die. Of the two numbers showing, the smaller is subtracted from the larger.<\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the difference is 0, 1, or 2, player A gets 1 point.<\/li>\n<li>If the difference is 3, 4, or 5, player B gets 1 point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The game ends after 12 rounds. The player with the most points wins the game.<\/p>\n<p>If you were given the choice of being Player A or Player B, which would you pick, assuming you want to win?<\/p>\n<p>Remember to explain all the steps you use in making your decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_ctl00_cphMainContainer_cphContent_dzContentArea_uxColumnDisplay_ctl00_uxControlColumn_ctl00_uxWidgetHost_uxWidgetHost_widget_pnlExtra\" class=\"pow_problem\">\n<h3 class=\"yellow_heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Extension:\u00a0Describe another way of scoring that is fair for this game of differences. Explain how you know it is fair.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">[A mathematician considers a game to be fair if all players have an equal chance of winning.]<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>*For Grades 3-5<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nctm.org\/\">NCTM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie made up a new dice game. Two players each roll an ordinary six-sided die. Of the two numbers showing, the smaller is subtracted from the larger. Scoring: If the difference is 0, 1, or 2, player A gets 1 point. If the difference is 3, 4, or 5, player B gets 1 point. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/challenge-of-the-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Dicey Situation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}