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SeaStar
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 7:34am \| IP Logged

I just came across these at the local teaching store... math dice in different shapes and colors with all kinds of different numbers on them. My mom immediately let the kids each pick out two and bought them.

My ds thinks it's fun to sit on the steps and roll two dice, then add the numbers together (ex. one die might say 17 and the other 80).
They are kind of neat in a novel way... a good way to sneak in some extra math practice.

At the same time... they just have a bit of a new agey look. Am I being paranoid to worry about that?

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Posted: June 10 2010 at 9:26am \| IP Logged

The "multifaceted dice" you're referring to are also called polyhedral dice. The standard ones are Platonic solids plus an additional 10-sided die. So there's a tetrahedron (4 sides), hexahedron (standadrd 6-sides), octahedron (8 sides), decahedron (10 sides, though not a true Platonic solid), dodecahedraon (12 sided), and iscosahedron (20 sided die.) The 10-sided dice either have 1 to 10 or they have 10s on them (00, 10, 20, 30, 40, and so on.)

There's all kinds of fun math games you can use them for. I have the Polyhedral Dice Game book. Each page is a game board for a variety of dice games. I took the book apart and put each page into a sheet protector to make them easier to use--you can even write on them with a dry erase marker if needed for the game.

The dice are used in fantasy role playing games not recommended for Catholics to engage in. Some may well be used by other New-Age or frankly occult activities, I don't know, but they certainly did not originate there. They are commonly found in educational venues like the one in which you purchased yours.

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Posted: June 16 2010 at 1:30am \| IP Logged

Oh, we have those dice and JBug uses them for her math all the time. So easy to just hand her a random pair and say "roll and add these" or subtract, etc. She loves them. I would totally not worry about the new-agey thing with these. They are just dice.
Kris, I have not seen that dice game book! Looks great! Thanks!

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