In this game, older children can start to appreciate the probability that is embedded in the game by recording what sums are rolled and seeing what happens most often.

Even for a game like Settlers of Catan, well-known for taking hours to play, “I might roll the dice only about 100 times in the whole game,” Crane said.

In the end they gave me three games to test out, two of which we played for a while in the hotel bar after dinner one night. The one that surprised me most is Math Dice.

Over time, dice used in playing games have changed in shape and size and evolved with considerations about fairness, chance and probability.

This year the coolest addition to their lineup was an updated Math Dice. Like last year's game, this one starts out with two D12s, but instead of multiplying the D12s, we take the blue die to the ...

Dice, in their standard six-sided form, seem like the simplest kind of device—almost a classic embodiment of chance. But a new study of more than 100 examples from the last 2,000 years or so ...

This game is fairly representative of all the Star Wars Math games in that there are easy ways to get around the problems. In the case of Dueling Dice, you simply count the number of tiny storm ...

Improving a child’s sense of numbers, and their understanding of probability, fractions, ratios, shapes and patterns, can all be incorporated into daily life or with simple games.