Table Talk Newsletter #19

• Find three different colored dice. I happened to have green, white and red.  If you don’t have colored dice, you could also number the dice or use one normal die and roll it three separate times.
• Roll the red die.
• Roll the white die and subtract the white die from the red die. Sometimes this produces a positive number and sometimes this produces a negative number.
• Roll the green die.
• If the green die is even, your score for that round (the red die minus the white die) doubles. This is wonderful if you had a positive number but it’s a huge disappointment if you had a negative number.
• If the green die is odd, your score for that round (the red die minus the white die) clears to zero. This is wonderful if you had a negative number but it’s a huge disappointment if you had a positive number.
• Keep a running list of the scores for each round and add them together at the end to see who wins. You can choose whether the highest score or lowest score wins.

Table Talk Newsletter #18

• Start at 10, count up by 5. “15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40…”
• Start at 8, count up by 10, “18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68…”

• Did you notice something about the numbers you said every time? What about the numbers others said every time?
• What number do you think you are going to say if we went one more time around?  2 more times around?

• Start at 26, count down by 8. “18, 10, 2, -6, -14, -22, -30...”
• Start at 128, cutting each number in half. “128, 64, 32, 16...”

• Can you check your answer please?
• I disagree with your answer.
• That is not the number I would’ve said.

Table Talk Newsletter #17

Table Talk Newsletter #16