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Acting Like a Hog

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Students explore game theory.  For this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies.  Students play the game three ways:  any number of dice, a fixed number of dice and using the calculator function dice and compare the average number of points per turn and consider the question of optimal strategy. 

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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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