Place Value Yahtzee

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by Susan

I used to play Yahtzee for hours as a child so when I saw this, I had to introduce my girls to it too. I found this on Pinterest so clicked through to the website it’s on – games4gains. Here you’ll find the instructions and all the score cards, depending on whether you want to work with three, four or six digit numbers or decimals. We must have played this game ten times over a couple of days. It’s something we could do as a family so it didn’t feel like maths practice at all!

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Maths | Maths games

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